374 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



Michigan's Shifting Sands, Their Control and Better Utilization. 



By F, H. Sanford. Special Bulletin No. 79. Michigan Agricultural 



College, Experiment Station. East Lansing. May, 1916. Pp. 31. 

 IIlus. 



Proceedings of the Southern Forestry Congress. A standard book 

 on southern forestry practice. Copies may be secured at $1 each from 

 J. S. Holmes, Secretary, Southern Forestry Congress, Chapel Hill. N. C. 



Biennial Report of the State Conservation Commission of Wiscon- 

 sin for the Years ipi^ and ipi6. Madison. 1916. Pp. 160. Illus. 



That portion dealing with the Division of Forestry and Parks re- 

 views briefly the history of the land-buying policy of the State and the 

 State Supreme Court decision in regard to it ; also fire protection, State 

 parks, etc. 



Fourth Biennial Report of the State Forester, ipi^-ipi6. State of 

 Montana. Pp. 55. Illus. 1 map. 



The report covers the scope and objects of State forestry in Mon- 

 tana, farm and city trees, timber resources of Montana, qualities and 

 uses of the more important Montana woods, the preservation of wood, 

 fire protection in Montana, recreation in the mountain forests of 

 Montana, recommendations for improvement in existing laws. 



The Early European History and the Botanical Name of the Tree 

 of Heaven. Ailanthus altissima. By W. T. Swingle. Journal of the 

 Washington (D. C.) Academy of Sciences. Vol. VI, No. 14. August 

 19, 1916. Pp. 490-498. 



Northern Nut Grozvers' Association. Report of the Proceedings 

 at the Seventh Annual Meeting. Washington, D. C. September 8 

 and 9, 1916. Pp. 118. 



The proceedings contain the following articles of special interest : 

 The Chestnut Bark Disease, by Dr. Haven Metcalf ; Discussion and 

 Resolutions on Quarantine for Chestnut Nursery Stock ; Hybrids and 

 Other New Chestnuts for Blight Districts, by Dr. Walter van Fleet. 



Report on the Lands and Mines Department (British Guiana) for 

 the Nine Months, April to December, 1915. Georgetown, Demerara. 

 1916. Pp. 21. 



