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for railroad purposes — the author seems to act as an agent for railroad" 

 supplies — the fellings have proceeded normally, according to plans, 

 and otherwise without trouble; even the removal of underwood, 

 brambles, etc., was properly attended to. There are, however, some 

 badly managed forests ; the author seems to charge this to too long 

 working plans which nobody reads, instead of laying down a few 

 principles, leaving to the initiative of the manager the detail of execu- 

 tion. A working plans bureau is proposed, perhaps under a special 

 inspector-general, using, however, the knowledge of resident man- 

 agers of experience. 



The forest maps come in for criticism, not giving any surroundings, 

 roads of different character, and villages, stations, or other occupied 

 places. The absence of a geological map is regretted. Lack of uni- 

 formity and propriety in cruising, classifying and valuing the fellings 

 is astonishing the author, when he found greatest differences in this 

 respect in neighboring forests belonging to two different conservations. 

 Gross errors are undoubtedly underlying these differences. The lack 

 of knowledge in this respect is again charged to the habit of selling on 

 the stump, and a change in this respect after the war is declared 

 necessary. B. E. F. 



Revue des Eaux et Fdrets, December, 1916, pp. 349-53, January, February, 

 March, 1917, pp. 12-14, 44-46, 73-76. 



The Indian Forester quotes from The India- 

 Finance man an interesting criticism of Indian forest 

 in finance. After showing that State Forest in 

 India British India covers about 250,000 square miles, 

 "or more than one-fifth of the total area under 

 English administration," and after admitting that "the first duty of the 

 administration is to keep the forest in existence," it is argued that the 

 second duty is to make a success financially, and "the third duty is to 

 raise this net revenue to the maximum, and here the administration 

 has, in our opinion, fallen seriously behind ; as will appear later on, 

 we make this charge, not against the technical officers, but against the 

 superior administration of India as a whole." 



The writer places the present revenue at about $5,000,000, which 

 amounts to about 4 cents per acre administered. After showing pos- 

 sibilities of greater increased revenue, a strong plea is made for more 



