I20 Forestry Quarterly. 



feet in 1871 to 62.7 cubic feet in 191 1. The proportion of saw 

 logs has increased during this period from 33 to 44 per cent. 



T. S. W., Jr. 



Revue dcs Eaux et Forets, November 15, 1913, pp. 697-698. 



The latest ownership statistics of federal, 

 Forests communal, public institution and private 



of forests of Belgium are as follows : 



Belffium. Federal forests, 79,800 acres 



GDmmunal, 410,000 " 



Public institution, 16,440 " 



Private (census of 1894), 678,200 " 



Total, 1,184,440 



The figures show that the per cent, forested is 18.32. 



T. S. W., Jr. 



Revue des Eaux et Forets, November 15, 1913, p. 694. 



Oberforster Miiller having delved in the 



History archives of his home city, Leipzig, tells 



of a most interestingly of the history of that 



City Forest. city's forests. These are now comprised 



chiefly in the two royal Saxon "reviers" 



Burgaue and Connewitz, a total of 2,412 acres. Originally the 



major portion of these woodlands belonged to local monasteries; 



but the Reformation ended this and gradually possession passed 



to the city of Leipzig. 



The first survey of the city forests was made in 1563 by di- 

 vision of the area into triangles and the measuring, on the ground, 

 of the base and altitude of each (triangulation!). The survey 

 also included a rough description of the component stands. 



The need for better bases of yield determination led to a resur- 

 vey in 1714. Again, triangles were used to calculate areas. Care- 

 ful descriptions of the forests formed a part of this survey. 



The boundaries were fixed accurately for the first time in 

 1597- Stones and scribed trees were used as monuments, the 

 latter only till the eighteenth century when, for greater perma- 

 nency, stones were substituted. The completion of the bound- 

 ary work in 1597 was followed by an inspection on the part of a 

 Commission appointed by the City Council. A protocol tells of 



