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enough sales be made to justify contractors in making the expenditure 

 on permanent roads. 



That this expenditure should have been made by the owner — the gov- 

 ernment — as an improvement of its property, and not at the expense of 

 the silvicultural system, did not apparently occur to the authorities. 



Artificial reforestation has hardly been practiced and the two planta- 

 tions of extent (sowing in seed spots) which are mentioned have not 

 been a success, through ignorance in one case. 



We have not been able to see much that is directly applicable to our 

 own problems in the administration, management, or silviculture of the 

 French colonies, nor indeed do these methods seem to have produced 

 unqualified success ; but we have given a sufficient insight into the con- 

 tents of the volume to show that the accounts are comprehensive and 

 worth studying for the indirect benefit that must come from its perusal. 



There are some minor points of criticism which we offer for the 

 benefit of the author in bringing out a second edition. 



Although the author in the Introduction very properly proposes in 

 giving equivalents of French measure to merely approximate the Amer- 

 ican measures, he repeatedly gives equivalents to the second and third 

 and even fourth decimal, or otherwise unnecessarily exact (see pages 

 8, 113, 115) ; and in several places the equivalents are faulty, e. g., page 

 43, 1.5 meter = 7 yards ; page 53, 4 hectares = 10 acres and 2 hectares 

 = 6 acres ; page 56, 40 hectares = 88 acres ; page 119, 20 meters = 666 

 feet. On page 115, both holm oak and vert oak are named 0. ilex, 

 probably by oversight. On page 1 19, the American Civil War is made 

 responsible for high prices of naval stores in the years 1856 and 1872. 

 On pages 52 and 53, a number of useless references without pages are 

 noted, as Id. instead of Ibid. 



B. E. F. 



British Forestry ; Its Present Position and Outlook after the War. 

 By Edward Percy Stebbing. John Murray, London, 1916. Pp. 258, 

 12 plates. 



Professor Stebbing, of the University of Edinborough, has brought 

 the dependence of Great Britain on timber imports into strong relief in 

 the book under review. The demand for wood in Great Britain has 

 greatly increased since the outbreak of the war. Due to the submarine 

 menace and the need for all available bottoms for other shipping, im- 

 portations, however, have been reduced, even in this time of greater 

 need. The falling off of importations and the increased need has led 



