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one in favor of an adequate forest protection." Four fire protective 

 associations are mentioned, and an interesting account of fire protec- 

 tion by lumber companies. Considerable space is devoted to city tree 

 planting, and there is an excellent article by DuBois, entitled "Summer 

 Homes on the National Forests.'' The data on eucalyptus plantation 

 investigations show that the forestation by commercial companies has 

 been far from successful. Curiously enough, there is only an insert 

 sheet giving the results of these investigations. Considering the im- 

 portance of protecting investors from unscrupulous eucalyptus com- 

 panies, it is unfortunate that more space was not devoted to the results 

 of this investigation. 



The report for the year ended June 30, 1916, by Conservator 

 Walter Gill, dated Adelaide, October 19, 1916, is chiefly of interest 

 because of the data it contains on eucalyptus plantations. The results 

 of these plantations are admirably illustrated in the a.ppendix. The 

 student of forest administration, however, could glean additional data 

 of interest. The planting of the past was 75 per cent successful. The 

 expenditures on forests, according to Table 5, for the period of 1876 to 

 1916 were £367,523 and the revenues less than £200,000. 



T. S. W., Jr. 

 New Haven, Conn. 



Sixteenth Annual Report of the State Board of Forestry, 1916. State 

 of Indiana. Indianapolis, Ind. 1917. Pp.217. 



Out of the 217 pages in this report, at least 150 pages are devoted 

 to educational and propagandist matter, and the balance of space, the 

 report proper, also is mainly or wholly educational in character. In 

 other words, although the State Board of Forestry had had a career of 

 sixteen years, the State forest idea — a policy of recuperation under ac- 

 tive State guidance — is still foreign to it. Perhaps this is due to the fact 

 that Indiana's forests are entirely in farmers' woodlots, and hence the 

 State can act only as an educator. We do not know whether more than 

 "puttering" is practicable. There is, however, in the hands of the 

 board, a State forest reservation of 2,000 acres, purchased by the State 

 for $16,000 in 1903, located in southern Indiana, which is used for 

 demonstration purposes, State nurseries, etc., and also as a park. Of 

 the total appropriation of $8,000, the simi of $3,000 is set aside for the 

 reservation, against which a credit of $200 for wood sold. Oak, hickor}'-, 

 beech, and in some parts the scrub pine (P. virginiana) are the principal 

 trees. 



