1885.] OBITUARY. 467 



In the Hyderabad Districts the regular plantations have not been 

 extended, but 20 acres have been sown with babul, making a total 

 acreage of 2260 at the close of the year. Upwards of 199,759 

 cubic feet of teak have been yielded by the Berar forests during the 

 year. The financial results are satisfactory, showing a surplus of 

 14,667 rupees. 



Woods and Lakes of Maine : A Trip from Moosehead Lake to New 

 Brunswieh in a Birch Bark Canoe. By Lucius L. Hubbard. 

 New and Original Illustrations by Will. L. Taylor. Boston, 

 U.S.: Osgood & Co. 1884. 



Every lover of life in tlie wild woods should procure this book. 

 Foresters may with safety order it for tlieir libraries. The plate 

 of the Moose which faces the title is alone worth the trouble, while 

 the personal observations on the habits of the beaver are delightful 

 reading. 



Obituary. 



THE LATE FWFESSOR ARCHER. 



^"TTHILE the sheets of our last number were passing through the 

 VV press, Thomas Croften Archer, Director of the Museum 

 of Science and Art, Edinburgh, was very suddenly called away by 

 death, at the age of si.xty-eight. The Chambers Street Museum is 

 perhaps the best monument of its late energetic and laborious chief. 

 Edinl)urgh men wlio remember the modest beginnings in the old 

 Argyle Stiuare under the genial inspiration of the late Professor 

 George Wilson, know well how the achievement has surpassed the 

 original inception of the :Museum. The busy masons now at work 

 may tell us how part of the plan remains to be finished. And 

 while as foresters we deplore tlie loss of one who had so much at 

 heart the display of our special technics, we cannot but look with 

 anxiety lest in the impending new appointment the claims of our 

 scientific art be overlooked. 



