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a common cause, — is the modern system of forest management of 

 vhicli I have spoken. By this there are secured, simultaneously, a 

 natural reproduction of forests, with a progressive amelioration of 

 these, and a sustained supply of forest produce, and each of these as 

 satisfactorily as if it alone had been the object which the forester 

 had in view. "We are familiar with the form of the cells in a 

 honeycomb, each of them a hexagonal tube, terminating in an apex 

 with three facets, and so arranged that the six sides of any one cell, 

 say of every cell, constitute the sides of six other cells, while the 

 three facets of every cell constitute facets of other three cells — with 

 the result that the saving of material, saving of labour, and saving 

 of space is as complete in the case of each as if that had been the 

 sole design of the arrangement. So are the three objects mentioned — ■ 

 natural reproduction, progressive amelioration, and sustained pro- 

 duction — secured in modern forest economy, Now of this scarcely 

 was there to be seen in the Exhibition an indication of its having 

 received any consideration by those to whom we are indebted for 

 that Exhibition. 



There were, indeed, indications of this method of exploitation, 

 which is followed universally on the Continent, being practised,—- 

 such indications as may be likened to the first appearings of dry 

 land here and there above the waste of waters, when dry land fii'st 

 emerged from the globe-encircling ocean ; and they were to be seen 

 where perhaps the visitors would have least expected to meet 

 with them, — in the wonderful collection of objects sent from Japan ; 

 in the scarcely less wonderful, and perhaps more striking, collection 

 of objects brought from India ; and in one or two of the collections 

 exhibited from Denmark. I have no recollection of seeing anywhere 

 any others. 



There were no maps, charts, diagrams, or forest products illustra- 

 tive of forest management in Sweden, Finland, Eussia, Hungary, 

 Austria, Croatia, Greece, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Baden, Hesse, 

 Saxony, Bohemia, Silesia, Prussia, Hanover, France, Switzerland, 

 Spain, Portugal, or Algiers : though in each of these countries there 

 is presented a distinct and different phase of forest economy, and 

 in many of them such distinct and difierent phases of the most 

 advanced forest economy of the day. 



I do not state this to disparage that Exhibition. I glory in that 

 Exhibition, and in results which have already manifested themselves, 

 and in still greater and far-reaching results which I hope are yet to 

 follow. I have made the statement solely with a view to make 

 intelligible another statement M-hieli I am about to make, which is, 

 that I consider that Exhibition a fair representative of the forestry 

 of Great Britauj, both in its magnificence and in its defects. 



