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most to relieve present needs. The world possibly may not have been so hungry today if 

 botanists had refleeted more upon the processes of nutrition in plants. Food can be made, 

 und made so near points of maximum consumption, that problems of transportation can be 



greatly reduced, if the kinds of food and methods of culture are more accurately adjusted to 

 the demand. — A. II. drivers. 



141S. Pool, Raymond J. About high-school and college botany. School Sci. Math. 19: 

 4S7-500. June, 1919. — Botany, the "sick man" of the high-school curriculum, is on the very 

 edge of dissolution. We have a far greater field for teaching the science of plants if we take 

 it more freely to those phases of world life and society dependent upon plants than if we con- 

 fine it to the Pleurococcus-Taraxacum gamut and to the gametophyte-sporophyte intricacies 

 of the plant phyla. High schools should shelve some of their microscopes and get down to 

 the living, growing, producing plant and its vital relation to this storm-tossed world. We 

 have got to do this or others will do it for us. Suggested course: (1) The leaf: anatomy, 

 growth, water-loss, photosynthesis, uses. (2) Roots: structure, physiology, development. 

 (3) Stem: wood, fibers, pruning, grafting. (4) Flower: forms, sex-organs, commercial 

 value. (5) Seed and fruit: kinds, food content, production, dissemination. (6) Ecology: 

 plant communities and distribution. (7) Main groups of plants, evolution. (8) Plant- 

 diseases: causes, symptoms, control. (9) Weeds: damage, kinds, dissemination, eradication. 

 (10) Flowering plants: principles of classification, important economic groups and species.— 

 A. Gtindersen. 



FOREST BOTANY AND FORESTRY 



Raphael Zon, Editor 



1419. Anonymous. Forest investigation. Amer. Forestry 25: 1218-1219. 1919.— There 

 has been a growing conviction on the part of foresters in the United States that the amount 

 of silvical research conducted by all agencies, including the Federal Government, is very 

 inadequate. Problems exist in the southern pine region, the hardwood region in the Appa- 

 lachians and neighboring States, the Lake States, New England and the West. — Chas. H. 

 Otis. 



1420. Anonymous. Forests. Official Year Book, Union South Africa 2: 451-458. 1919. 

 — This is a general survey of the nature and extent of the timber forests of the Union, the pol- 

 icy of the Government with regard to the forests and the production and importation of 

 timber. A list is given of indigenous trees reserved under the Forest Act, No. 16 of 1913. — 

 E. M. Doidge. 



1421. Anonymous. A national forest policy — why and how. Amer. Forestry 25: 1049- 

 1052. 1919. — An article made up largely of quotations from speeches by Henry S. Graves, 

 Forester, United States Forest Service, incorporating lumbering statistics of importance and 

 his ideas of a future forest policy. — Chas. II. Otis. 



1422. Anonymous. Report on the Botanical and Forestry Department for the year 1917. 

 [Hong Kong, China.] 18 p. [Received in U. S. August, 1918.] — A collection of short notes 

 dealing with the administration of this department and primarily of local interest. The notes 

 deal with activities in connection with the Botanical Gardens and various grounds and 

 nurseries in charge of the superintendent. The forestry activities include the formation of 

 pine and broad-leaved tree plantations; the care of such plantations; the protection of forests 

 from fire and insect damages; the planting and care of roadside trees; the making and re- 

 pairing of roads and paths; and other activities of less importance. Appended to the report 

 are seven tables and a supplement. The tables deal with the rainfall of the current year; 

 a classification of the offences committed against the forestry laws; the results of bringing 

 these cases before the police courts; a list of flowering trees and shrubs planted; and various 

 matters dealing with expenditures and revenues. The supplement enumerates 15 species of 



