ANOTHER WORD ON SITE 753 



Height has been recognized for fifty years and more as the most 

 convenient criterion of site, and recent studies abroad, though con- 

 ducted in even-aged, pure stands, "man-made" and cared-for, have 

 been obliged to use the height as the starting point, and have been 

 unable to adhere to the accepted standard of volume {see Schwappach 

 as against the standards of 1888). 



Since we need a convenient, simple, and practicable site classification, 

 and since this should preferably be quite uniform in principle to be 

 useful, and since such classification needs general agreement, it is to be 

 hoped that Bates' article may "draw fire" from many quarters. 



