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them. The common injurious animals with which the engineer deals 

 are shipworms, the crustaceans, Liinnoria, Chelura, Sphccroma, barna- 

 cles, and the molluskan pholads. Snow devotes a chapter (pp. 300- 

 325) to summarizing the injuries to wood which are made by animals. 

 Numerous methods have been tried to secure protection from marine 

 borers, such as transference to salt water, by external protective coat- 

 ings for the wood, of metal, tiling, cement, large-headed nails, or a 

 paraffine mixture reinforced by burlap. By impregnating wood with 

 creosote, protection is given as long as the creosote lasts, even as much 

 as forty years. Of terrestrial wood-destroyers, attention is called to the 

 fact that engineers seldom protect wood from the attacks of beetles, 

 although living trees are often destroyed by them. From an engineer- 

 ing standpoint, termites, or white ants, are the most destructive of land 

 w^ood-destroving animals. 



C. C. A. 



Eighth AuJiiial Report of the Conservation Coiitiiiissioii. State of 

 Xew York, igi8. Albany, 1919. 205 pp. 



The Eighth Annual Report of the New York State Conservation 

 Commission is a reply to the challenge of its opponents and critics. 

 Coming at a time when the commission is under fire, it sets forth clearly 

 just what the commission has accomplished and what it proposes to do. 

 By reading this report, any citizen of the State may inform himself as 

 to the work of this State department and draw his own conclusions. 



This report, more than any in recent years, is a finished piece of 

 literary work, for which credit is due the unflagging zeal of the com- 

 mission's able secretary, Warwick Carpenter. 



The report consists of 205 pages, divided as follows : 



Pages 



General Topics 32 



Fish and Game 62 



Land and Forests 43 



Waters ( Storage and Power) 28 



Saratoga Springs 19 



Miscellaneous 21 



It is superbly illustrated by 24 plates. 



Space does not permit the briefing of any but the section on Land and 

 Forests, which is. of course, of the greatest interest to foresters. 



As the report points out, the administration of the forest preserve — 

 an area about one and a half times the size of the State of Delaware, 

 intermixed with private land of even greater area and bounded by more 



