548 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Progress report of forest administration in the Andamans for 1909-10, 

 H, A. Faerington {Rpt. Forest Admin. Andamans, 1909-10, pp. /r+30).— Tlie 

 usual progress report relative to the constitution, management, and exploitation 

 of the state forests in the Andamans, including a financial statement for the 

 year. The important data are appended in tabular form. 



Coombe plantation, Keswick: A successful plantation at a high altitude, 

 R. L. Robinson and A. L. Watt (Jour. Bd. Agr. [London], 11 (1910), Nos. 4, 

 pp. 265-283, pis. 5, figs. 3; 5, pp. 353-370). — The data, including the revenues, 

 expenditures, and financial returns, are given of a 198-acre plantation princi- 

 pally of spruce and larch started at Keswick, England, in 1848 and on which 

 the work of clean cutting was started in 1903. Consideration is also given to 

 the efCect of elevation and exposure on larch and spruce. 



Forest fires, A. Jacquot (Incendies en For^t. Paris and Nancy, 190ft, 2. ed., 

 pp. 400). — This work as a whole comprises a handbook of information relative 

 to the appraisement of damage from forest fires. It was prepared with the 

 view of assisting various classes of laymen, as well as foresters, in the appraise- 

 ment of damage from forest fires, in the settlement of the terms of compulsory 

 acquisition, temporary concessions, and generally in all cases of injury to forest 

 crops. Part 1 deals with the judicial and administrative phases; part 2 dis- 

 cusses the general principles of estimations, rates, and values of a forest at its 

 different ages ; part 3 takes up in detail the appraisement of damage in various 

 forest types ; and part 4 contains specimen reports and reference tables. 



A bibliography of the works consulted is given. 



Forest fires, A. Jacquot, trans, by C. E. C. Fischer (Calcutta, 1910, pp. XV-\- 

 278). — This is an English translation of the above work made with the view of 

 its application in so far as possible to the question of forest fires in India. A 

 r§sume of the Indian laws and rules connected with forest fires is added but 

 the bibliography mentioned above is not included. 



The use book: Water power (U. S. Dept. Agr., Forest Serv., 1911, pp. 86). — 

 This section of the use book (E. S. R., 22, p. 542) contains regulations and 

 instructions for the occupancy and use of the National Forests for purposes of 

 water power development and utilization. These instructions, which were 

 issued by the Secretary of Agriculture on December 28, 1910, supersede all 

 previous regulations for like purposes. 



Studies of trees in winter, Annie O. Huntington (Boston, 1910, 2. ed., pp. 

 XXIV+198, jns. 79, figs. 3). — ^An analytical key to trees in winter, based largely 

 on the contrasting characters of the buds, leaf-scars, and stems, has been added 

 to the present edition of this work (E. S. E., 14, p. 664). 



Forest border studies in the Austrian Alps, R. M. Graz (Mitt. Justus 

 Perthes' Geogr. Anst. Erganzilngsh. 168, 1910, pp. VIII+102, pi. 1, map i).— 

 Part 1 of these studies comprises a detailed survey relative to the locations of 

 the climatic timber line in the several parts of the Austrian Alps. Part 2 is 

 largely a theoretical consideration of the relation between the timber line and 

 the climatic factors. 



A contribution to the study of some timbers of the Argentina Chaco, D. 

 Maecelo de Blochouse (Min. Agr. [Argentina], Div. Ensenanza Agr. [Puh.], -}. 

 ser., 1910. No. 12. pp. 2}). — A brief description of 69 forest species occurring in 

 the vicinity of Resistencia, Argentina. The data for each species include the 

 common and botanical name, average growth dimensions, appearance, density, 

 and uses of the wood. The species are further classed relative to their value 

 for tanning purposes, as fruit trees, and as yielding medicines and tinctures. 

 Data are also given on the principal mechanical properties of 24 species. 



In the Landes country. — Exploitation of resinous forests, J. H. Ricabd 

 (Au Pays Landais: Exploitation des Forets Resineuses. Paris, 1911, pp. 252, 

 figs. 20, map 1). — This is a historical account of the fixation of sand dunes and 



