PERIODICAL LITERATURE 



FOREST GEOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION 



In an article by R. M. Anderson, giving an ac- 

 Arctic count of the recent explorations in the Canadian 



Forest Arctic coast, the following data regarding "tim- 



Conditions her areas" are given: 



"The northern limit of spruce trees on the 

 Coppermine River is about 20 miles from the coast, although some 

 stragglers are found growing 5 to 10 miles from the coast on Napark- 

 toktuok Creek, a few miles east of the river. Willows of good size, 

 and from 10 to 15 feet high, are found in many places north of the tree 

 line, and persist until they dwindle to small ground-creeping shrubs on 

 the northern islands and wind-swept mainland coast. 



"To the west there are no trees anywhere near the coast until we 

 come to Franklin Bay, where we find spruce of fair size 10 or 15 miles 

 inland, in the valley of Horton River. Spruce comes rather close to 

 the coast on the Anderson River south of Liverpool Bay. Still farther 

 west we find the great northward extension of timber in the ^Mackenzie 

 delta, fair-sized trees occurring northward nearly to Richard Island 

 about 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle. 



"On the Horton River, the Coppermine River, around Dismal Lake, 

 and to a less extent farther west, we often noted the large proportion 

 (in some places 90 per cent) of dead spruce trees near the northern 

 limit of timber. There seemed little evidence of fire destruction, and 

 the explanation that the northern regions are becoming colder and the 

 vegetation retreating seemed inconclusive. On one of our winter trips 

 Mr. Johansen accompanied a sledge party southward to the timber-line 

 on the Coppermine River and made a careful study of conditions. He 

 found that practically all the dead trees showed traces of the ravages 

 of bark beetles, three species of them being found." 



The Geographical Review, October, 1917, pp. 255-256. 



From the review by Dr. Schlich of Mr. D. E. 

 Australian I futchins' monumental volume of 434 pages on 



Forestry forestry in general and Australian forests in par- 



ticular, we extract the following data of interest : 

 Mr. Hutchins is well known as for many years in charge of the Cape 



