354 FOBEST BOTANY IN NOBWAY. [March, 



The Colony is, at present, in a sound financial condition, and there 

 should be no difficulty, as suggested by Mr. Fowler, in raising the 

 above-mentioned sum in England, on loan, which, it may be ob- 

 served, is only a little over two years' income. 



Time will forbid my entering more fully upon the numberless 

 resources of our West Indian possessions, or describing them so com- 

 pletely and so abundantly as they deserve. I cannot, however, close 

 this brief and, I fear, very incomplete account of what is being done, 

 or is capable of being done, in the West Indies without expressing 

 confidence in the great future which lies before them, and also the 

 hope that their abundant latent wealth will be so expanded and de- 

 veloped as to afford a prosperous outlet for English capital and 

 enterprise, now too often diverted and absorbed in fruitless operations 

 in foreign States. D. Morris. 



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FOREST BOTANY IN NORWAY: 

 I. 



^N the Journal of 'Forestry,' vol. ii., p, 316, are given some 

 ffl notices of forests and forestry in Norway. About the time when 

 ^ the observations then published were being made, there was 

 published a valuable report on The Kingdom oj Norway and its 

 People, by Dr. 0. J. Broch, President of the Norwegian Commis- 

 sion for the International Exhibition in Paris in 1878, in which was 

 embodied a sketch of the vegetable products of Norway, including 

 forest trees. And in 1879 there was published as a contribution to 

 the jubilee connected with the 400th anniversary of the founding of 

 the University of Copenhagen, A Report on the Distribution of 

 Plants in Nonvaij, by Dr. F. C. Schuebeler, Professor of Botany in 

 the University of Christiania, in which is supplied much additional 

 information in regard to forest trees, indigenous or cultivated in 

 Norway, with plates illustrative of the appearance of these and of 

 the form and veiiation of their leaves. There are given with this 

 report, charts illustrative of the mountainous region of the country ; 

 of the coast lands of northern Norway ; of the temperature 

 throughout Europe on 1st January ; of the isotherms in the month 

 of January, and in the month of July ; of the lines of minimum 

 temperature throughout north-eastern Europe ; of rainfall ; of the 

 humidity ; and of the geological strata superimposed on the 

 primitive rocks. And in the report is embodied the longitude 

 and latitude of the most northern localities in Norway in which 

 have been observed the indigenous growth, or cultivation, or 



