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laid aside his editorship on account of old age. This has been 

 taken up by Melard who has made somewhat of a name for him- 

 self since the International Forestry Congress at Paris in 1900 

 through his discussion of the insufficiency of the world's timber 

 supply. In his first number Melard has outlined a program, 

 covering several pages, and, supported by The Board of Forest 

 Management at Paris, and by the faculties of both the French 

 forestry schools, at Nancy and Barres, he will be in position to 

 maintain and advance the prestige of this journal. 



Dr. Fankhauser, from whose '' Schweizerische Zeitschrift fi'ir 

 Forstwesen " we take the foregoing notes, devotes a fourth para- 

 graph to an appreciation of the ' ' Forestry Quarterly. ' ' 



Rod and Gun in Canada. 

 Feb. 



" The Rocky Mountain Park," and " Ontario Forest Reserves " 

 are both short descriptive articles of general interest. 



March. 



Estimating Timber Contents, by A. Knechtel is another of the 

 short descriptions of well known timber mensuration methods 

 which have been appearing from time to time in Rod and Gun. 



Woodland and Roadside. 

 March ist. 



In an interesting article of a general nature Mr. T. F. Borst 

 describes forest work in Massachusetts in general, and especially 

 that of the Metropolitan Water Board in reforesting the Boston 

 watershed. 



Popular Science Monthly. 

 March. 



Mr. Raphael G. Zon of the Bureau of Forestry writes on the 

 Source of Nitrogen in Forest Soil. He reviews the work of 

 recent investigators especially that of Prof. Henr}'. 



Transactions of the English A^'boricidtiiral Society . Vol. V, Part 

 II. G. & T. Fisher ; Carlisle. 



Contains an interesting account of the annual excursion of the 

 Society to France, and also several articles on English priv^ate 

 estate management. 



