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fires, 165. (This latter is a classification of fires outside the National 

 Forests. Similar fires -within the Forests are classified under other 

 heads.) 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal, of the Department of Botanical Research, in 

 the Carnegie Institution, has designed apparatus for measuring the 

 increment of trees, which he calls a dendrograph. It consists of a 

 belt of wooden blocks hinged together, with a number of "plungers" 

 in close contact with the tree and an encircling wire with a pen at- 

 tached, which records the daily and seasonal changes on a drum. This 

 reminds us of an earlier invention for the same purpose by the Aus- 

 trian Forester, Dr. Friedrich, called increment autograph, described 

 in Forestry Quarterly, vol. IV, page 52, which records these changes by 

 an electric attachment in the investigator's office. 



The following startling classification of forest conditions in British 

 Columbia is made in the report presently to be published by the Com- 

 mission of Conservation : 55 per cent, or 200,000 square miles, incapa- 

 ble of producing commercial timber; 30 per cent, or 100,000 square 

 miles, timber once plentiful, now totally destroyed ; 7 per cent, or about 

 27,000 square miles, seriously damaged ; 8 per cent, or 28,000 square 

 miles, only statutory timberland. Altogether, it is calculated that 665 

 billion feet board measure have been destroyed by fire. Not over 8 

 per cent of the soil of the province is considered agricultural. 



The newly awakened interest in forestry matters in the United 

 Kingdom, the result of the shortage of timber supplies in the country 

 during the war, is brought out forcibly in the first part of the 

 Transactions of the Royal Scottish Arborictiltural Society, January, 

 1919, which gives a "Discussion on Forestry Administration and For- 

 estry Education at the General Meeting Held on July 3, 1918'"; "The 

 Society's Meeting with the Interim Forest Authorities on November 

 26, 1918"; and "The Interim Forest Authorities and the Training of 

 Foresters." 



Dr. Otto Kress, after an absence of more than a year, during which 

 time he was engaged in private work, has returned to the Forest 

 Products Laboratory and assumed charge of the pulp and paper section. 



A very complete census of the pulp and paper industry in Canada for 

 191 7 shows, with over 96 million dollars, a rise in value of production 



