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flowering, or fruiting — it bein'g specified which it is — of well-nigh 

 4,000 different plants found there. Along with a copy of this there 

 has been received at the office of this Journal, a large map of the 

 kingdom of Norway in four sheets, illustrative of the same, together 

 with a corresponding map in one sheet, with coloured indications 

 of the forests of coniferous and of broad-leaved trees in the kingdom. 

 These were sent from the Royal University of Norway in Christiania ; 

 and in the course of this month there was received by me, from 

 the Directory of Forest Administration in Christiania, a copy of 

 the same map, along with three forest maps of different districts 

 of the county of Christiania. From the whole, it appears that the 

 broad-leaved trees are found chiefly in the west and the north-west 

 portion of the kingdom, though by no means confined to these, and 

 mostly on the borders of rivers and lakes and skirting the lower 

 fi'inges of coniferous forests ; while the forests of coniferous trees 

 are densely diffused over the south-east and sparsely scattered over 

 the extreme north of the kingdom. 



The maps were in both cases accompanied by a Eeport by the 

 Forest Directory for the period 1875-1880. The maps sent to me 

 were also accompanied by ' a Eeport on the Nature and Condition 

 of Forests in Finmark,' by Forest-Inspector Earth ; ' a Eeport on 

 the Nature and Condition of the Forests in Guedbrandsdalen,' by 

 the same author ; ' a Eeport on the Condition of the Woods in the 

 Watercourses of Arendal,' by Forest-Inspector Mejdell ; ' a Eeport 

 on the Condition of Forests in Eomsdals County,' by J. Schioetz ; 

 and Eeports by A. T, Gloersin ; and of Examination of Forests in 

 Stavanger and the borders of Bergenus County. There had previously 

 been received by me reports on the economical condition of the 

 kingdom by Prefects of ninteeen Prefectures, for the years 

 1861-1865 ; similar reports for the years 1866-1870 ; and ' a 

 Eeport made by Forest- Assistant Aars, to the ■ Department of the 

 Interior, on the Condition of the Forests in the Prefecture of Lister 

 and Mandal,' published in successive numbers of the Christiansand 

 Stiftsavis, in the latter months of 1870, containing saddening 

 accounts of the reckless and hopeless destructions which were then 

 and had been for some time, going on in the forests. 



The maps and reports sent to the office of the Journal, had been 

 forwarded through Mr. Hoist, of Christiania, formerly Secretary of 

 the University, and now Director of the Foreign Literary Exchange 

 of Norway, who is prepared to supply information, to procure printed 

 works or treatises which are to be obtained gratis, and to put 

 foreigners engaged in any literary or scientific researches in commu- 

 nication with scientific men in Norway, when he cannot through the 

 agency himself supply the desired information. An arrangement 



