PERIODICAL LITERATURE 



Forestry in Great Britain, as pointed out in 

 Forestry Forestry Quarterly, XIV, p. 766, has made little 



in Great progress under the development commission. An 



" Britain attempt was made lately to revive interest by the 



English Arboricultural Society. After a very 

 lively discussion at its meeting in September, 1916, the society rejected 

 some other radical resolutions to be submitted to the government, calling 

 for a separate government authority or department responsible to 

 Parliament as an essential step; for a sur\-ey and land classification 

 with a view of afforestation through demobilized soldiers; for restrict- 

 ing private deforestation and enforcing immediate reforestation of 

 cut areas, with or without state aid, or forcible dispossession ; for 

 extinction of servitudes and improved management on state forests ; 

 for a large scheme of reforestation of waste lands to be purchased 

 by the state — a program worthy of a Colbert ! 



These resolutions were presented by Professor Somerville, who 

 accompanied them by lengthy arguments. 



He showed that the small forest area of Great Britain had shrunk 

 by 3T,000 acres in eight years before the war (and it is shrinking 

 more rapidly now!), while there are now nearly 20,000,000 acres 

 of mountain and heath land of which* at least 6,000,000 lend 

 themselves to tiinber-growing. While 10,000,000 loads is the import 

 of wood from countries climatically similarly situated, the home 

 production is only 1,000,000 loads. 



The society, however, voted delay. 



Discussion on the Present Position and Future Development of Forestry in England 

 and Wales. Quarterly Journal of Forestry, January, 1917, pp. 20-58. 



An interesting note comes from Switzer- 



Largc-sizc land on some large specimens of old Norway 



Trees spruce (or is it fir? the Journal calls them epicae 



and sapin interchangeably!) which had been 



preserved by the commune of Tourtemagne for their interest to 



visitors, but were cut to secure the unusual price which the war has 



brought about. 



The trees were about 350 years old, the wood very fine-grained. 



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