040 EXPERIMENT STATION KECORD. 



Annual report of the director of forestry of the Philippine Islands for 

 the period July 1, 1906, to June 30, 1907, (J. I'. Aiif.rN et al. {PhUipitinr 

 Bur. Forestry Rpt. 1001, pp. 5-37, maps 2). — This report includes a report of 

 the second annual conference of the foresters of the Pliilii)i>ine Bureau of 

 Forestry with a list of recommendations adopted at the conference relative to 

 various phases of the work ; a report of the committee on free use privileges 

 with a proposed amendment to the Free-Use Act designed to regulate the abuse 

 of privileges granted under the act; considerations relative to the present 

 status and possible development of lumbering operations ; and an outline of 

 the work of the bureau in investigating the amount, character, value, and uses 

 of the Philippine forest products. Tabular statements are given of the licenses 

 and applications granted for lumbering, clearings, and homesteads, utilization 

 of forest products, amount of timber taken by leading licensees, import and 

 export of lumber, revenues, and exp.enditures. 



Desirable tracts of public forests are said to be available and unoccupied 

 in several of the provinces. Maps of these districts have been made and esti- 

 mates prepared showing the stand, varieties of merchantable timber, possi- 

 bilities of logging, etc. Available forest tracts in Negros Occidental, and 

 northeastern Mindoro, together with a report of an examination of pine lands 

 tributary to Bagnio, Province of Benguet, are considered in the present report. 



Report of the conservator of forests, C. E. Legat {Transvaal Dept. Agr. 

 Ann. Rpt. 1907, pp. 17S-192). — An account of nursery and planting operations 

 conducted at the various forest centers including a financial statement for the 

 yea r. 



The royal Bavarian forestry administration and its historical development 

 ill the nineteenth century, J. Keiper {Forstw. Centhl., n. ser., 29 {1907), 

 No. 9-10, PI). 499-531, pi. 1; 30 {1908), Nos. 2, pp. 61-76, pi. 1; 3, pp. 121-11,1; 4, 

 pp. 181-199, pi. 1). — From the standpoint of management the author divides 

 the Bavarian forest administration into four well-defined periods of develop- 

 ment which are discussed in their order as follows: From 1803 to 1821; 1822 to 

 1853 ; 1853 to 1855 ; and 1855 to the present time. 



Report on the history of the woodlands of the town of Ettling'en, M. 

 Seeger (Karlsruhe, 1908, pp. 90, map 1). — A thesis on this subject accepted by 

 the Grand-ducal Technical High School at Karlsruhe for the degree of doctor 

 of engineers. The work includes a historical account of the Ettlingen forests 

 relative to their management, forest policy, protection, exploitation, etc. A 

 brief bibliography is appended. 



Annual report on the literature and important happenings in the realm 

 of scientific forestry, forest zoolog'y, agricultural chemistry, meteorology 

 and forest botany for the year 1907, H. Weber (AUg. Forst u. Jagd Ztg., 

 1908, Sup., pp. 89). — This report contains abstracts of the important literature 

 on the various phases of forestry together with notes on important occurrences 

 in the forest world for the year 1907. The topics included are silviculture, 

 utilization, management, valuation and statics, the theory of forest mensuration 

 and yields, administration, history, policy, statistics, news of forest unions 

 and hunting clubs, zoology, botany, and soil physics. 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Observations on the biology of Botrytis cinerea, F. T. Brooks {Ann. Bat. 



[London], 22 {1908), A'o. <S7', pp. 1,79-1,87, figs. // 1 .— A study was made of B. 

 cinerea to determine if possible the conditions under which it is able to infest 

 its host plants. The conidia were found to develop and grow luxuriantly in 

 gelatinized grape extract, and infection experiments were carried on with pure 



