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507. T[homson], J. A. [Rev. of: Fleming, A. 1'. M. Industrial research in the United 

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 122-124. March, 1918. 



508. T| iiiimshn |, .1. A. [Rev. of.'HooBBN, G., i.ND J, A. Thomson. Report on the organi- 

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 New Zealand Jour. Sci. Tech. 1: 120-122. March, 1918. 



509. W., L. J. [Rev. of: Agricultural research in Australia. Commonwealth of Australia 

 Advisory Council of Science and Industry. Hull. 7. Melbourne, 1918.] New Zealand Jour. 

 Sci. Tech. 2: 155-157. March, 1919. — Official report of the proceedings at a conference of 

 agricultural scientists held in Melbourne in November, 1918, under auspices of Advisory 

 Council. 



510. Wells, Morris M. The relation of ecology to high school biology. School Sci. Math. 

 18: 439-446. May, 191S— See Bot. Absts. 4, Entry 384. 



FOREST BOTANY AND FORESTRY 



Raphael Zon, Editor 

 J. V. Hofmann, Assistant Editor 



511. Anonymous. Der Haushalt der preussischen Forst- und Landwirtschaftlichen Ver- 

 waltung fur das Rechnungsjahr 1919. [Financial statement of the Prussian Department of 

 Forests and Agriculture, fiscal year 1919.] Forstwiss. Centralbl. 41: 327-332. 1919.— Total 

 income of the forest administration was 263,301,000 marks, or 68,440,000 marks more than 

 in 1918. 240,000,000 marks was received for timber, an increase of 65,000,000 over 1918, due 

 to increased quantities sold. Other income was from by-products (resin, etc.), 15,000,000, 

 hunting, 1,250,000, and miscellaneous 7,051,000 marks. Total expenses were 87,916,000 marks, 

 or 11,085,000 more than in 1918. These included salaries, 17,816,400 marks, costs of cutting 

 and transporting timber, 35,000,000 marks, and various other costs of administration, improve- 

 ments, pensions, and the like. The total area of State forests was 3,052,092 hectares, 13 

 hectares more than in 1918. Of this, 2,728,868 hectares are productive forest. Total yield 

 of wood is estimated at 11,351,749 cubic meters. The personnel numbers 6509, including 744 

 Oberforster ("Supervisors") in charge of forests and 3965 Revierforster and Forster ("Rang- 

 ers") in charge of districts. — W. N. Sparhaivk. 



512. Anonymous. Die Brautigamspflanzung auf Alsen. [The bridegrooms' plantation on 

 Alsen.] Des Forsters Feierabende [Supplement to Deutsch. Forst zeitg. 35] no. 35. 1920. — 

 An old custom required every man on Alsen Island, before his marriage, to plant ten young 

 oaks or fifteen beeches, or pay a fine. Hence the name for the oak and beech woods. — W. N. 

 Sparhaivk. 



513. Anonymous. Die Forderung des Anbaus von Korbweiden. [Encouraging the pro- 

 duction of basket willows.] Deutsch. Forst zeitg. 35: 175. 1920. — With the shortage of for- 

 eign raw material the basket industry is in sore straits. The chief sufferers are the war- 

 injured and other economic weaklings. It is necessary to utilize all existing willow holts and 

 to develop new ones in every suitable place. — W. N. Sparhaivk. 



514. Anonymous. Die neue Dienstanweisung fur die preussischen Staatsforster. [New 

 service instructions for Prussian state foresters.] Forstwiss. Centralbl. 41: 464-473. 1919. 

 — Gives in detail the duties of local forest field officers, effective October 1, 1919. — W. N. 

 Sparhaivk. 



