Periodical Literature. 607 



The net revenue from the chase has increased from $60,000 to 

 nearly ?i 50,000. 



j'5 Jahre staatiicher iiiid privatcr Forstzvirtschaft in Preussen. Zeit- 

 schrift fiir Forst-u. Jagdwesen, June, July, 1913, pp. 341-369, 430-446. 



A decided step in advance towards en- 

 Forestry coiiraging forestry in Great Britain was 



in made in 1910 with the appointment of a 



England. Development Commission, which is to ad- 



vise the government as to the propriety of 

 giving grants from a specially organized Development Fund to 

 government departments or other public bodies for development 

 and road improvement purposes. 



This Board, which, it will be noted, has only advisory powers, 

 in 191 1 authorized and establishment of a demonstration area of 

 5 to 10,000 acres in Scotland, with a forest school attached, and 

 for Ireland, approved a grant of $125,000, to start a scheme of 

 the Department of Agriculture for counties to ''acquire and re- 

 forest waste lands." 



Various reports or memoranda regarding the conduct of the 

 demonstration forest, forest garden, and all other requirements 

 mittee, but a note by Ferguson complains of the situation as far 

 as Scotland is concerned. "A forestry department for Scotland 

 remains non-existent. no representative of the govern- 

 ment helps — though several hinder — in making provision for 

 demonstration forest, forest garden, and all other require- 

 ments for State training for forcstr}- and for State afforestra- 

 tion." 



Development of Forestry in England. Transactions Royal Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society, July, 1913. pp. 147-160. 



Those interested in the early history of the 

 Protection coniferous protection forests in the North- 



Forests ern Alps will find a valuable contribution 



in in ]\Ir. P. Mougin's article which traces the 



Savoy. regulations in force from the 17th cen- 



tury. As early as 1729, a fine of 50 livres 

 was levied for those who cut "wood and trees of any kind what- 

 soever which are suitable for maintaining the snow and prevent- 

 ing avalanches and erosion." After the reunion of Savoy to 

 France in 1792, various decrees were published but the adminis- 



