7 2 Forestry Qua rterly . 



Leitfaden fur schiveiz. Uyiterfdrstcr- u. Baynnvartenk^irse . By 

 Dr. Franz Fatikhauser. i Teil. Einleitung, Standortskunde, 

 Forstbotanik uud Waldbau. Pp. x+182. 111. Bern, 1902. 



A handy manual of practical forestry containing brief defini- 

 tions and notes regarding the forests and forestry of Switzerland 

 but with little of direct interest to us. It is practical forestry con- 

 densed for the use of Swiss underforesters. 



The chapter on Site we find of more than local value and it is 

 interesting to note the method of treatment. It is in the chapter 

 on Forest Botany, however, that the author excites our envy. If 

 only we had such descriptions of a half-hundred of our principal 

 timber trees with such emphasis on their silvicultural require- 

 ments and possibilities as are here given in concisest form for the 

 Swiss species how much better could the young forester orient 

 himself in .silviculture ! 



The chapter on Silviculture proper deals too much with details 

 of practices which are as yet too expensive for our conditions. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 Vol. IvIV. Part II. 



Contains a paper. Two Fungus Diseases of the White Cedar, 

 by John W. Harshberger, Ph.D., which gives an extensive ac- 

 count of the injury done to the white cedar in the swamps of 

 New Jerse}' by Gyninosporangitini biseptatjcm and G. Ellisii. 



The JVoodsman's Handbook, Part I. By Henrj' Solon Graves. 

 Bulletin No. 36, Bureau of Forestry. Pp. 148, PI. i, Figs 15. 



The major part of this handy little volume is taken up by a 

 comparison of the 43 different log rules in use in the United 

 States and Canada. The tables give the log diameters in even 

 inches from six to sixtj', and the corresponding volumes for 12, 

 16, and 20 foot logs. A short history and description of the 

 method of volume determination is given for each rule. The 

 Scribner, Doyle, New Brunswick, Nineteen Inch Standard and 

 the Twenty Four Inch Standard rules are given in full. 



A number of handy tables for the reduction of logs to square 

 timbers, for cubic contents of logs, for cordwood measurements 

 etc., are included. The remainder of the volume is occupied by 



