Editorial Notes. 671 



We would particularly recommend to the attention of young 

 foresters the subjects II. (which is limited to " Assistant Foresters" 

 VI, VIII, IX., X, XI., XII, XX., XXII., and XXV., as being quite 

 within the scope of their experience, and for which we trust to seea 

 lively competition. Subjects XIV. and XV. have a special interest for 

 our Indian and colonial friends. Xatives of the United States of America 

 and the continent of Europe are specially invited to compete for XIII. 

 and XVI., to whose attention we would also recommend the XXIII, 

 subject. We would like to see subject XXL, " For an approved 

 Essay on the Best Methods of Bearing Timber Trees in Deer Forests 

 for Shelter," taken up and treated in a practicable manner by some one 

 who has had experience in this somewhat difficult but highly desirable 

 operation, especially in the wild glens and on bleak mountain sides of 

 the Deer Forests in the Highlands of Scotland. 



Through the courtesy of our esteemed correspondent. Dr. J. 

 Croumbie Brown, of Haddington, we are enabled to lay before our 

 readers some particulars of the increasing interest that is being dis- 

 played in forestry, and all that relates thereto, in the United States of 

 America. As we stated last month, there is a Bill at present before 

 the U.S. Congress for the promotion of this laudable object upon a 

 very liberal and comprehensive scale, with every prospect of being 

 passed into law at an early date. From a message sent by the 

 President of the United States to the House of Representatives, 

 transmitting a special report upon the subject of Forestry by the 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, we learn that by an Act of Congress 

 passed on the 15th of August, 187B, the Commissioner of Agriculture 

 was required to appoint some man of approved attainments, and 

 practically well acquainted with the best methods of statistical 

 inquiry, with a view of ascertaining the annual amount of consump- 

 tion, importation, and exportation of timber and other forest pro- 

 ducts ; the probable supply for future wants ; the means best adapted 

 to the preservation and renewal of forests ; the influence of forests 

 upon climate ; and the measures that have been successfully applied 

 in various countries for the preservation and restoration or planting of 

 forests ; and to report upon the same to the Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture, to be transmitted by him in a special report to Congress, 



In accordance with the terms of this Act, Dr. Franklin B. Hough, 

 of LowviUe, Lewis County, New York, was appointed on the 30th of 

 August, 1876, for the performance of this important duty, for the 

 discharge of which he seems to be uncommonly well qualified. He 

 appears to have entered upon his duties with great zeal and enthu- 

 siasm, and to have diligently prosecuted his investigations and in- 



