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minor uses, the bulk of the annual cut of 700,000,000 cubic feet 

 goes to the mill to be manufactured for home consumption. Fin- 

 land is to-day in the condition of the United States — just 

 beginning to realize that the "inexhaustible timber supply" 

 is a myth ; prices are rapidly rising, have in fact doubled in the 

 last fifteen years ; more economic methods of exploitation and of 

 manufacture are being introduced ; the former large sized trees 

 are no longer to be obtained : in 1887 it took 30 stems, as they 

 run, to make a St. Petersburg standard, while in 1897 it took 42. 



PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 



Beginning with this year various changes in the issuance of 

 forestry journals are to be noticed. Oberforstmeister Wilhelm 

 Wei.se, Director of the Royal Prussian Forest Academy at Miin- 

 den in Hanover, who edited the '' Mihidener Forstliche Hefte^^ 

 until its discontinuance a year ago, now becomes joint editor with 

 Oberforstmeister Paul Riebel, Director of the Royal Prussian 

 Forest Academj^ at Eberswalde, of the '' Zeitschriftfiir Forst-tuid 

 Jagdweseri." This aflSliation should raise the influence of this 

 already standard publication, and, both from the standpoint of 

 the interest of the papers published and of the convenience to the 

 reader, should be greeted with approval. 



Among the journals of the last decade none stood higher than 

 the '' Forstlich-Nattcrwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift ' ' established by 

 von Tubeuf in 1892 and discontinued upon the editor being called 

 to Berlin in 1898. This is now revived by Dr. von Tubeuf in 

 association with Dr. Hiltner, Director of the School of Agricult- 

 ural Botany in Munich, under the title of " Naturwissenschaftliche 

 Zeitschrift fi'ir Land- und Forstzvirtschaft,'' and as organ of the 

 botanical, zoological, soil chemistry and meteorological labora- 

 tories at Munich as well as of the School of Agricultural Botany. 

 Special attention will be given to the diseases of cultivated crops 

 induced by fungi and in.sects. 



In France, Charles Broillard, Conservator of Forests, who dur- 

 ing eleven years has conducted the " Revue des Eaiix et Forets " 

 with such untiring energy and intimate acquaintance with his 

 subject and with the practical requirements of his position has 



