4o8 Forestry Quarterly. 



This is the first complete Silva of the Islands, and is a well 

 composed book, large octavo, on good paper and with clear print, 



B. E. F. 



List of Hawaiian Names of Plants. By Joseph F. Rock. Board 

 of Agriculture and Forestry. Honolulu, 1913. Pp. 20. 



This is merely a register, alphabetically arranged by the native 

 names, some 800, with the botanical names added, mostly of trees 

 and shrubs ; the main object being to preserve these names from 

 the ocean of oblivion into which they are rapidly falling with 

 the demise of the old people of Hawaii. 



B. E. F. 



Restauration et Conservation des Terrains en Montagne. Di- 

 rection Generale des Eaux et Forets. Imprimerie Nationale, 

 Paris. 191 1 (nominally.) 3 volumes. Pp. 798. 



In 1908 the (French) Chamber of Deputies requested a state- 

 ment of the expenditures for the control of torrents and reboise- 

 ment under the law of April 4, 1882. In complying with this re- 

 quest the Director of Waters and Forests transmitted a com- 

 plete and profusely illustrated resume of the work accom- 

 plished by the reboisement service. In the three volumes,, there 

 are three maps and 300 illustrations, many of them of un- 

 usual merit. Volume I describes the results of erosion, torrents, 

 ■restoration work, species used, sowing and planting details, 

 with the classified expenditures from i860 to 1909. Volumes II 

 and III describe the individual projects under the headings : i. De- 

 scription of the basin altitudes ; 2. Geological conditions, climate ; 

 3. General administrative situation, area, population; 4 State of 

 the soil; 5. Composition and area of the perimeter of work; 6. 

 Work carried out. Those who are interested in the details of 

 this classic forest restoration should study these volumes. 



T. S. W., Jr. 



