870 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



The article very properly concludes with a statement that the vital 

 needs are for better and more adequate fire protection. And this is the 

 chief thing to be hammered home, not alone in Minnesota, but through- 

 out the country, and more especially where fire protection is practiced, 

 where the public is, in most cases, self-satisfied and complacent. Wil- 

 ing to take the credit for keeping down fires when the weather is in 

 their favor, they are equally willing to blame the weather when the 

 fires get away and run amuck. There are States right now with pro- 

 tective organizations which are trying to build up a set of statistics 

 which will tend to show their protective organizations efficient by 

 shouldering the responsibility of unusual losses on the weather. It is, 

 nevertheless, frankly admitted that their organizations can, in many 

 particulars, and must be strengthened if they are to effectually control 

 the human factors which are responsible for most fires in the first in- 

 stance. The reflection is, however, not primarily on forest officers 

 under conditions as they are, save to the extent that such officers fail 

 to frankly meet the situation by fearlessly and unequivocally pointing 

 out organization weaknesses. The public can have as good and ade- 

 quate a fire-protection organization as it is willing to pay for. 



L. M. 



Trees of Indiana. By Charles C. Deam. Bulletin 3 of the State 

 Board of Forestry of Indiana. ' 299 pp., 133 pi. 



A revised edition of the 191 1 report of the State Board of Forestry, 

 with corrections, additional notes, and a new introductory chapter. Mr. 

 Deam is a thoroughly reliable dendrologist. He has a complete private 

 herbarium of botanical specimens of all trees native to Indiana, from 

 which practically all the botanical drawings in the bulletin were made. 

 He has carried on field investigations in all parts of the State during 

 the last 15 years, in which work he specialized on the distribution of 

 trees. The bulletin is of especial value to those interested in the au- 

 thentic distribution of trees in the United States, as it indicates all 

 counties in the State in which each species occurs. All publications 

 bearing on the distribution of trees in Indiana were consulted, but the 

 author has used his field knowledge of the State in judging the correct- 

 ness of all reported occurrences of the different species. In the intro- 

 ductory part is given a list and critical discussion of trees reported by 

 various authorities as occurring in the State, but which the author is 

 convinced do not occur at the present time or never did occur as native 

 in the State. This cutting down on the scope of previously reported 

 ranges of certain trees is in itself a valuable contribution to dendro- 



