642 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



While the work is admittedly limited in duration and in the climatic 

 elements studied, the author has succeeded in bringing out some quan- 

 titative relationships which will assist other investigators in correlating 

 growth phenomena with probable climatic causes. The study will also 

 be suggestive in showing the comparative use and value of different 

 methods of growth measurement in work of this kind. 



D. R. Brewster. 



Proceedings of the British Columbia Forest Club, ipi6. Volume 

 2. Victoria, B. C. 191G. Pp. 77-143. 



This is a neatly printed volume, containing ten interesting articles, 

 or addresses given before one of the most active forestry clubs, 

 fathered by one of the most energetic forest services. Classifying 

 the contents, we find half the addresses, and also nearly half the pages, 

 devoted to discussions of markets for British Columbia lumber, two 

 articles on logging problems, only two on orthodox forestry problems, 

 and a delightfully written sketch of the life of Indian foresters, by R. 

 li. MacMillan after his own experience. Air. MacMillan also fur- 

 nishes an address on "Export Timber Trade," to stimulate which he 

 had been sent around the world by the Dominion Department of 

 Trade and Commerce. In this he explains the attitude of the pro- 

 vincial forest service towards the lumber industry. In view of the 

 discussions now going on in the States over similar conditions, we 

 consider it apropos to quote some of his sentences as suggestive : 



"The Provincial Forest Service, in supporting this investigation by 

 the Department of Trade and Commerce, did so because it is realized 

 that wise forest administration in British Columbia depends upon 

 there being profit instead of loss in the logging and lumbering 

 business 



"Forest administration in British Columbia has not gone beyond 

 preliminary business management and fire protection. It cannot well 

 go farther while the existing stu npage situation exists on the Pacific 

 Coast, where throughout the Douglas fir belt areas of timber (large 

 enough to supply the available markets for the next century) have 

 been allowed to pass into the hands of owners who, in order to rescue 

 •their capital or realize their long-anticipated profits, will try to cut in 

 twenty or thirty years. 



"It is now realized by foresters on the Pacific Coast that in the 

 stumpage situation they are face to face with a problem even more 

 serious than fire protection, more difficult to handle, and more dan- 

 gerous. I say more dangerous for the reason that it now lies in the 

 hands of an unorganized, inexpert mob of timber owners on the 



