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The U. S. Forest Service has established a eucalyptus arboretum on 

 the Angeles Forest, near San Bernardino, and at present thirty species 

 of eucalyptus are being grown there, each in a separate plot. Seed of 

 the rarer species was obtained direct from Australia. It is proposed to 

 continue this work until all eucalypts of any importance are included 

 in the arboretum. 



A ludicrous perversion of news occurred when Mr. Graves and his 

 council arrived in Paris last June and Le Temps announced that these 

 American foresters had been imported to begin at once the reforesta- 

 tion of the devastated French forests. This led to an interpellation in 

 the Chamber of Deputies, when the true mission in the opposite direc- 

 tion was revealed. 



In spite of its timber wealth, India is importing considerable and 

 increasing amounts of lumber from Japan and the United States and 

 from other countries. In 1916-1917 the deal and pine import alone 

 amounted to around $1,200,000 and $1,400,000 of other materials, while 

 the total wood import from all countries amounted to around $3,- 

 300,000. 



A meeting of Minnesota district forest rangers and railroad officials 

 was held at McKay Hotel, Duluth, Minn., on April 8, to discuss fire- 

 protection work by railroads. A frank discussion ensued, which ap- 

 parently made the meeting a profitable one, the special point at issue 

 being the relation between settling damage claims and fire-prevention 

 work. 



In the Canadian Pulp and Paper Magazine of May 9, H. N. Lee and 

 R. W. Hovey, of the Canadian Forest Products Laboratory, begin a 

 very useful discussion on the principal properties, structure, and iden- 

 tification of Canadian pulpwoods. In the first section the structural 

 characteristics for identification are given by illustration and descrip- 

 tion. 



"Geoteresy" is a new convenient term invented by Coldstream, of 

 the Indian Service, to denote the operations for the protection of soil 

 surface against erosion by torrents, river, sea, or submersion by these 



