THE JHAWAIIAN 



rORESTER U AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. IX. JANUARY, 1912. No. 1. 



INDEX FOR VOLUME VIII. 



With this number is issued the table of contents and index of 

 Vohime VIII of The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist. We 

 flatter ourselves that the plan adopted is an improvement on the 

 index of Volume VII. The object sought, and -we believe gained, 

 was to secure the minimum of effort to find any particular thing 

 wanted in the volume. ^Minutes of the board and reports of di- 

 visions are sub-indexed to show every important topic contained 

 therein. Similarly contributed articles, reports of the conserva- 

 tion meeting and the rubber growers' convention, and even se- 

 lected articles of varied scope, are sub-indexed. Editorial mat- 

 ter is indexed both as to headed articles and independent par- 

 agraphs. Besides the indexing of subjects in board minutes and 

 division reports, incidental references to board or division else- 

 where are indicated under the head of government bodies. 



As to the subject-matter analyzed in the index, it is evident 

 that the magazine has covered a wider field, the past year, than 

 ever before in its eight years of existence. Besides being a record 

 of the activities of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, it has 

 been made an organ of the educational department of the Terri- 

 tory, although in a different way. During the year considerable 

 information relating to the College of Hawaii, much of it didactic 

 for the benefit of both teachers and students in all schools, has 

 been given in the pages of the magazine. Most of such matter 

 has borne upon nature study in the public schools and farm and 

 garden science. The proposed course of study for the public 

 schools is elaborated in the latter part of the volume. Another 

 valuable feature of the Forester for 1*91 1, although not so fully 

 developed as the editor desired, is that of the technical articles 

 contributed by specialists, such as Messrs. Hagens and James, 

 which cannot possibly have failed to yield benefit to culturists in 

 our diversified agricultural industries. To supplement such 

 original contributions, the exchanges have been diligently search- 

 ed for useful information on tropical agriculture. 



That the entire bill of fare has been varied is somewhat evi- 

 denced by the fact that the volume just closed contains an aver- 



