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to $7.45, one-half of what they were in 1866 (about 1% per an- 

 num.) Exports rose from $32 milHon to $2 bilHon — about 3f 

 per cent.; while imports rose from $91 million to $1.5 billion — 

 little over 2.5%. It is in these last two items that the story is 

 mainly told, but an analysis of the make-up of exports and im- 

 ports is necessary to make out whether this denotes progress or 

 diminution of natural resources. We hope to return to this vol- 

 ume again. 



A circular of the Department of Commerce and Labor shows 

 the extraordinary increase in prices of many imported articles, like 

 cofifee, tea, rubber, wool, flax, hemp, tin, many of them having 

 increased in price 80 to 90 per cent, in the last decade, showing 

 change in conditions of supply in the countries from which 

 shipped. 



The Commission for the publication of an international forestry 

 bibliography (see F. Q., vol. VIII, p. 270) announces, that it has 

 at its disposal Mk 19,566, an amount just barely sufficient to ven- 

 ture on the work of compiling the bibliography of former years. 

 The payment of subscriptions is being called for. The Forestry 

 Experiment Station of Switzerland will do the editing at the 

 expense of the Federal Government. 



For the card catalogue of the new bibliography only 109 sub- 

 scriptions are so far received which makes the cost on white cards 

 $10 per 3,000 cards per year, beginning with the year 191 1. 



Professor Dr. Biihler Tubingen is the chairman of the Com- 

 mission. 



