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excellent growth resulted in the Presidency where the young plants came Up like grass; hut 

 unfortunately the ensuing season was extremely Unfavorable for want of rain and most of 

 them perished. Thousands of acres were sown by plowing furrows and dibbling and it is 

 more than prohahle that with a good year, it will he possible to extend the range of the -pe- 

 des. In the Central and Southern Circles, divi-divi {Acacia coriana) was also planted for 

 tanning, hut it is a 1 ree and will take at least lf> to 20 years to produce fruit, which is the util- 

 izahle portion. 'Phis tree thrives hest away from the sea coasl at an elevation of 2000 feet, 

 as for example, in Dharwar and Belgaum; doubtless also in Poona and Nasik where the rain- 

 fall is over 25 inches. Experiments in introducing various species of Eucalyptus, Grevillea 

 and Casuarina, at Toranmal, were continued and all are promising well. If a Eucalyptus 

 could be found which would be successful on the Mahableshwar and Panchgani plateaus it 

 would help to solve the very difficult question of the fuel supply at those places. Specimens 

 of Anogeissus lati folia and Tcnnuinlia nrjuna, held locally at North Khandesh to be quite 

 distinct from the ordinary varieties, were sent to the Forest Botanist for investigation. Ter- 

 lii) nulla tomentosa railroad ties supplied from Kanara W. D. to the N. W. railway in 1911 

 were reported on favorably again. — E. R. Hodson. 



1999. Berry, J. B. Measuring woodland products. Georgia State Coll. Agric. Bull. 

 142. 16 p., 7 jig. 1918. — A discussion of the board foot unit as applied to the sawn product, 

 round logs and standing trees. A simple method of estimating woodland timber is described. 

 — James B. Berry. 



2000. Blunt, A. W., and others. Progress report of forest administration in the province 

 of Assam for the year 1917-1918. 29, 49 p., 1 map. Shillong, India, 1918. — A routine annual 

 report for the province. The area of reserved forests in Assam was increased by 470 square 

 miles during the year and an additional area of 329 square miles was in process of reservation 

 at the close of the year. A new departure was a beginning in the formation of village for- 

 ests, under the management of local committees for the supply of fuel and other petty forest 

 produce to the villagers. Six forest villages were established in the Western Circle, the vil- 

 lagers giving free labor for the usual number of days, and no trouble was experienced in hand- 

 ling them. During the year the gross revenue increased, due to larger returns from grazing 

 and to the demand for railway sleepers and tea-box timber. Experiments were continued in 

 burning the undergrowth in sal (Shorea robusta) forests to favor regeneration and were suc- 

 cessful, to a certain degree, in the higher and drier localities where the undergrowth burned 

 freely. — E. R. Hodson. 



2001. Boulger, G. S. [Rev. of: Stebbing, E. P. Commercial forestry in Britain, its 

 decline and revival. 186 p. John Murray: London, 1919.] Jour. Botany 57: 260-262. 1919. 



2002. Campbell, R. H. Report of the Director of Forestry for the year 1918. (Pt.3,Ann. 

 Rept. Canadian Dept. Int., 1918.) 70 p., 13 fig. Ottawa, 1919. — Progress is indicated in the 

 extension of fire laws in the prairie provinces, the establishment of a forest experiment station 

 at Petawawa, Ontario, the collection of Pacific Coast tree seeds for tree planting in the Brit- 

 ish Isles, and the testing at the request of the New South Wales government of Australian 

 woods believed to be valuable for pulping. At the Dominion Forest Products Laboratory in 

 Montreal the project of compiling all the literature from all languages on waste sulphite 

 liquors has been completed, and in other projects such as the resolution of alcohol from pulp 

 waste liquors, the investigation of the chemistry of pulpwoods, and tie impregnation ex- 

 periments on jack pine and hemlock a considerable degree of success has been attained. — H . 

 C. Belyea. 



2003. Cavendish, F. H. Report on forest administration in the Andamans for the year 

 1917-18. 39 p. Calcutta. 1919. — -A routine report covering forest operations in the Anda- 

 man Islands. — E. R. Hodson. 



