540 Forestry Quarterly. 



a little information about it to the students — will see that it 

 takes a lot of work to make such a book. 



The North American logger is the greatest exploiter of forests 

 in the world — the most efficient per day's labor. American meth- 

 ods are being introduced the world over wherever undeveloped 

 forests occur. Alen, engines, cars, locomotives from the United 

 States are found in the most efficient operations of Siam, Formosa, 

 New Zealand, Philippines, Australia, Borneo, Africa and South 

 America. 



Logging is one of the greatest industries of North America. 

 About 55 billion feet of logs are cut annuall}^ on the continent, 

 which, figured at an average logging cost of $5.50 per thousand 

 feet, means an expense of 300 million dollars annually. 



And for this tremendous industry up till now not a single book 

 and only a few score of articles had been written that would be 

 of much service to a manager in the industry. Bryant's book is 

 the first attempt to fill in an acceptable manner at least a part of 

 the large gap. 



A. S. W. 



Geographical Report on Forests. By Roland J\I. Harper. Geo- 

 logical Survey of Alabama. Monograph 8. Economic Botany 

 of Alabama, Part I. 1913. Pp. 222. 



Topographically the State is divided into two great divisions: 

 the Hill Country and the Coastal Plain, the former occupying 

 two-fifths of the area. The Hill Country, from north to south, 

 is divided into five regions, namely, the Tennessee Valley, the 

 Coal Regions, the Coosa Valley Region, the Blue Ridge, the Pied- 

 mont Plateau region. Most of the regions are divided into sub- 

 regions. Under each subregion are discussed such topics as 

 geology and soils, topography and hydrography, climate, forest 

 types, percentage of woodland and forest products. 



The Loblolly Pine leads in the composition (22%) of the for- 

 ests in the Tennessee valley barrens subregion. The two next 

 highest are Red Oak (Q. falcata) and Sweet Gum. In the Ten- 

 nessee valley proper. Red Cedar leads in composition with 15 

 per cent. A large number of species (65) are listed for this 

 region, and with the exception of Red Cedar none of them enters 

 into the composition to a greater extent than 5 per cent. Beech, 



