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Incidentally, it is stated that in 19 13 the import of wood into the 

 United States amounted to over $200,000,000, of which one-quarter 

 for hardwoods and manufactures. 



A table of per capita wood consumption is given as follows : 



Cubic feet Cubic feet 



United States 260 Germany 2)6.6 



Canada 192 France 24.6 



Russia 63 United Kingdom 14 



Austria-Hungary 57 Italy ? 13 



In a comparison of work done in timber physics in Germany, 

 United States, and Great Britain, due compliments are particularly 

 paid to Mr. Tieman's development of dry kilns, in which the United 

 States leads the world. Great Britain's contributions on this tield are 

 practically nil. The author should, however, not have overlooked the 

 Indian Forest Research Institute. 



Indian Forestef, February, 1919, pp. 84-108. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The emancipation of woman in France took 



Women as another step forward as the result of a court 



Forest decision of October 18, 1918, sustaining the 



Guards right of women to employment as forest guards. 



The question arose through the desire of a 



private owner to give a permanent appointment to the widow of a 



forest guard who had been killed in the war, and whose place had been 



temporarily filled by his wife during his absence. After some delay, 



the court decided that there was nothing in the Code forestier or 



any other law which prevented a private owner from appointing a 



woman for work of this sort, and that the court must accept the oath 



of office of a woman appointed in this way and agreed to by the 



prefect or subprefect, provided there are no other legal objections to 



the appointment. This decision, which is regarded as very important 



under present conditions, is considered to have been influenced in 



large part by the fact that women had been similarly employed during 



the war in other occupations, as for example, on the Paris street rail- 



wavs. 



S. T. D. 



Jnrispnidcnce. Guyot. Ch. Revue des Eaux et Forets. Vol. 57, pp. 4-5. Jan- 

 uary, 1919. 



