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investigative work in touch with each other and to publish more 

 or less incomplete or minor investigation results. It fills about 

 the same place as the Mitteilungen of the German Forest Ex- 

 periment Stations. 



The first volume merely clears the deck for action, describing 

 in considerable detail the organization and the various problems 

 of investigation in which the Service is engaged or proposes to 

 engage. 



The organization is a mixture of collegiate and bureaucratic 

 method : a committee of investigators in each of the districts into 

 which the field is divided under the direction of a supervisor 

 discussing the projects or program from year to year, these then 

 to be reviewed and passed upon by the Chief of each branch at 

 the central office to which the subject belongs, and submitted to 

 the central investigative committee of three to co-ordinate the 

 work, and finally to be sanctioned by the Forester. This is much 

 machinery, but it has the advantage which many heads have 

 against one, a great advantage where inexperience and variety 

 of purpose might lead to questionable procedure. There are six 

 district committees of four and the central committee of three 

 to concoct the program. 



There are four classes of investigations grouped under Den- 

 drology, Grazing, Products, and Silviculture. Some few pe- 

 culiarities in the distribution of subjects under these four heads 

 may be pointed out, which are probably due to administrative 

 considerations. Mensuration and Management studies. Forest 

 Influences and Utilization studies might have been differently 

 assigned. 



The second volume brings short reports from each of the 

 four fields. In Dendrology, the observation that Chamaecyparis 

 nootkatensis, which elsewhere shows an annual fruiting form, 

 in Alaska (Chugach Forest) seems to be of biennial fructification 

 like the Cupressus genus, from which Chamaecyparis is differ- 

 entiated in part by the fruiting habit. 



From the Grazing section, failure of the sowings of various 

 grasses of general use tmder range conditions is reported, and 

 trial with native forage plants recommended, a method of col- 

 lecting and of using the seeds of Erodinm cicutarium is de- 

 scribed. 



Other articles discuss the results of grazing on seedlings and 



