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at King's Lynn. By E. Russell Burdon and A. P. Long. Bulletin 

 No. 2, University of Cambridge School of Forestry. Cambridge, 

 1913. Pp. 16. 



The plot selected for measurement formed a small part of a 

 block of woods, some 450 acres in extent, situated in the parishes 

 of Gaywood, Mintlyn and Bawsey. The trees were 91 years old, 

 had an average height of 65 feet, and the number per acre was 

 216 with a mean diameter of 13.3 inches. For the most part the 

 boles of the trees were free of branches up to 25 or 30 feet. A 

 sample tree contained a total of 27.9 cubic feet of which heart- 

 wood formed 7.8, or 28 per cent; sapwood, 17.9, or 64 per cent, 

 bark, 2.2, or 8 per cent. The equivalent volume of converted ma- 

 terial per acre, on the basis of the battens, scantlings and boards 

 actually sawed from a sample tree, was 4,082 cubic feet. 



Irish Forestry Society: Rides and By-laws. Dublin. 1913. 

 Pp. 12. 



The objects of the society are the advancement in Ireland of 

 scientific and practical forestry, the dissemination of knowledge 

 of such branches of science and arts as are connected with for- 

 estry, and the diffusion of information as to the benefits to be de- 

 rived by the Nation by the science of arboriculture properly un- 

 derstood and applied. The society was organized in 1900. 



Irish Forestry Society: Transactions and Statement of Ac- 

 counts for the Year ended ^ist December^ ipi2. Dublin. 1913- 

 Pp. 18. 



"Ireland of old was famous as a land filled with ..... sublimity,, 

 that of woods and forest grandeurs ; we could be as cheaply poetic 

 over woods' as over bare flint, and Ireland would be the happier 

 and every way the better ; .... we are the least wooded country 

 of the temperate zone, and every other country is working might 

 and main, men and money, and method to increase its forests. 

 We have of late a small nucleus of effort ; the lost idea begins to 

 come forward again ; but progress is slow. . . All that bare area, 

 those vast acres of nothingness, would, in well governed coun- 

 tries be clothed still with the secular woods, and immeasurable 

 source of work and of national wealth, to say nothing of the 

 good that follows to climate and to the beauty of the country or 



