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as read on the vertical arc of the chnometer. At the points on the 

 trailer, designating the slope correction distance there is engraved a 

 statement of the difference in elevation in feet for two chains of dis- 

 tance and that particular angle of slope. Its use accomplishes the estab- 

 lishment of two important operations in forest mapping in one unit 

 operation, namely, (1) the establishment of true horizontal distance, 

 and (2) the obtaining of true difference in elevation in feet for the 

 carrying forward of absolute elevations and the sketching in of true 

 contours as they appear on the ground. The special advantages urged 

 in favor of this slope chain is its adaptability and simplicity. 



Dr. C. A. Schenck, in an interview by Gordon Dorrance, in the 

 New York Evening Post of April 3, made the following interesting 

 statement : 



"German forests continue an Al asset. Our forest policy has been a 

 conservative one. It reaps today what it has planted. Were it not for 

 these forests the coal situation would fail of solution. Our present 

 forest policy continues too conservative for me. If there were ever a 

 time to empty the nation's savings box, that day has now arrived. 

 Where forests stand on farm soil they might well be converted to 

 farms. The paper price of forest products is high. Spruce logs sell 

 in the woods, 15 miles from the nearest railroad, at 3,000 marks per 

 1,000 board feet. Timber fit for furniture is beyond the reach of 

 people. The forest authorities, nevertheless, do not cut more even 

 now than the 'sustainable yield.' " A. B. R. 



An official guide to the Forestry Section of the Museum of Economic 

 Botany of Kew Gardens has lately been issued ; price, 2s. net. The 

 object of this section is to direct attention to British forestry and the 

 scope of the objects has been limited to collections of timber, fruits, 

 and seeds of trees, dried specimens of a few types of hardy trees and 

 shrubs, photographs of isolated trees, plantations and natural regenera- 

 tion of trees, the fungous and insect diseases of trees, articles manu- 

 factured from British grown timber, and tools and machinery used in 

 silvicultural and arboricultural operation. 



Ii recognition of his services to the Dominion and to the University 

 of Toronto for the last twelve years, the university has conferred the 

 degree of Doctor of Laws on Dr. B. E. Fernow, 



