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other useful plants, including notes on tlieir distinguishing characteristics 

 and uses. 



Our more important wild, medicinal, aromatic, and tea plants, H. Ross 

 (Unset e Wichtiyeren \V ildtcachsenden Heil-, Geicurz- und Teepflanzen. Munich: 

 Natur und Kultur, 1918, pp. 128, figs. 51 ) . — A descriptive account of the native 

 medicinal, aromatic, and tea plants of Germany, including information rela- 

 tive to their cultivation and use. 



FORESTRY. 



Annual report on the progress, literature, and important happenings in 

 the realms of forestry, hunting, and fishing for the year 1914, H. Weber 

 (Allg. Forst u. Jagd Ztg., 1915, Sup., pp. VIII-\-148). — In continuation of pre- 

 vious reports (E. S. R., 33, p. 49), this supplement contains abstracts of the more 

 important world literature dealing with various phases of forestry, together 

 with notes on the principal occurrences relating to forestry, hunting, and fish- 

 ing during 1914. 



Massachusetts and her forests, F. W. Rane {Boston: State, 1919, pp. 7). — 

 A brief summary of the present status of forestry in Massaclmsetts, including 

 i-ecommendations relative to future forest policies. 



Commercial forestry in Britain: Its decline and revival, E. P. Stebbing 

 {London: John Murray, 1919, pp. VI-\-186, pi. 1). — The author reviews the his- 

 tory of forestry in Gi'eat Britain since the days of the Roman occupation, dis- 

 cusses the present and future position as regards the provision of timber sup- 

 plies essential to the industries of the country, and then examines the afforesta- 

 tion problem in its various asi^ects. Afforestation is considered under the fol- 

 lowing general headings : What afforestation will do for the people, what 

 afforestation will do for the Nation, forestry, and agriculture, the protection 

 of the afforested areas, forestry education, State owned v. privately owned 

 forests, and the afforestation schemes. 



Forest-making in the United Kingdom, S. L. Bastin {Jour. Bath and West 

 and South. Counties Soc., 5. ser., 13 {1918-19), pp. 45-54). — The author con- 

 siders the problem of reforestation in Great Britain and gives a descriptive 

 list of some of the most valuable timber trees that are especially suitable 

 for planting in that country, 



[Beport of the] mission for the study of forest conditions sent to the 

 French Colonies by the ministries of war, armament, and the colonies. — I, 

 The woods of the Ivory Coast; II, The woods of Gabon, A. Bertin et al. 

 {Mission d' Etudes Fm'esticres Envoy6e dans les Colonies Francaises par les Min- 

 istires de la Guerre, de VArmement, et des Colonies. — I. Les Bois de la Cote 

 d'Jvoire; II. Les Bois du Gabon. Paris: Govt., 1918, vols. 1, pp. [10]-\-n9, pis. 

 9, figs. 2; 2, pp. [7]-f3a7, pis. 18, fig. i).— During 1916 and 1917 the senior 

 author headed a Government mission to the French Colonies of East Africa 

 to study the possibilities of exploiting the colonial forests. The two volumes 

 here noted give the results of studies made in the Ivory Coast and in Gabon. 



In the Ivory Coast some 62 species and in Gabon some 90 species were 

 selected by the mission as being of practical value for replacing Eux'opean 

 woods, some for general industrial uses and others for special uses. Informa- 

 tion is given relative to the local and technical nomenclature of these woods, 

 their physical properties, uses, distribution, and supply. 



The native forests of western Australia, M. Zaix)C0STAS (Awn. Oembloux, 

 25 {1919), Nos. 2, pp. 60-75; 3, pp. 98-109).— An account of the native forests of 

 western Australia and the economic importance of tbeir products, including 



