34 Forestry Quarterly. 



Rate of Growth of Oaks in the Krapevense Forest. By V, 

 Khichneseov. 



A Conference for Revising Freight Rates on Forest Materials. 

 By V. Sobichevsky. 



Appraising Forests for the Purpose of Taxation. By E. Dam- 

 berg. 



Insufficiency of the World's Timber Supply. — A criticism of 

 the famous French article of 1900. 



May-Jicne. Manufacture of Charcoal in Maltzevv's Forests. 

 By R. Behdevsky. 



Observations on the Life and Development of the Bark-eating 

 Spruce-beetle (Bostrichus). By A. Voronzov. 



Annual Report of the Public Forests. 



Silviculture in the Forests of Osum. By N. Regisbevsky. 



SchweJzerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen. 



July. Forstliche Reiseskizzen aus den Diinen uud Landes der 

 Gascogne. By A. Engler. (mit Abbildungen.) (Schluss.) 



A paper on the naval-stores indu.stry, as carried on in Gascony, 

 in the extensive forests of the Maritime Pine. The two methods 

 of obtaining the resin, by protracted but not intensive working of 

 the trees through a number of years, and by rapid inten.sive 

 "chipping" of the trees, which, under this management, give 

 large amounts of resin for a few years, and the methods of .separat- 

 ing and purifying the products are treated. 



August-September has little of general interest. 



Centralblatt fur das Gesavimte Forstweseyi. The Jul}' number 

 contains : — 



Vorbeugung gegen Ueberschwemmungen. By Oberforster 

 Franz Pollak in Hainburg-an-der-Donau. 



The old question of the influence of a forest cover upon precipita- 

 tion and on the run-oflf is reopened and the conclusion is reached, 

 mostly from a perfect knowledge of local conditions, that this is of 

 considerable importance in relation to the run-off, tending in many 

 ways to retard it and .so lessen its ability to do serious damage. 



Uebereinkunft zum Schutze der fiir die Landwirt-schaft niitz- 

 lichen Vogel. 



Sets forth the articles of agreement and concludes with two lists 

 of the u.seful and injurious species of birds found in the part of 

 Europe covered. 



