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which the insects do not like; (b) presence of some substance 

 which is poisonous to insects; (c) extreme hardness of the wood, 

 rendering it difficult to attack. Appended to the article is a note 

 by a research officer of Dehra Dun, India, who holds that the 

 data thus far are not conclusive. 



T. S. W., Jr. 



Indian Forester, January, 1914, pp. 23-42. 



STATISTICS AND HISTORY. 



Early reports on forest administration 



Early in the northwest province and in Oudh 



Administration throw an interesting light upon the crudity 



in India. of the administration as it then was. An 



officer in charge of an important forest 



wrote in 1872 that he had spent $10 in protecting his forest from 



fire, without avail. A novel method of sale was' then in force, 



namely, to charge $1.00 to $1.60 per month per cart rather than 



a rate per unit of product. 



Students of forest history should not fail to read this article. 



T. S. W., Jr. 



Indian Forester, March, 1914, pp. 75-94. 



In connection with the expected re- 

 Smiss vision of import tariffs, a very careful in- 



Statistics. vestigation into forest supply conditions of 



Switzerland is being made by a special 

 commission, of which Professor Decoppet is chairman. Switzer- 

 land comprises 16,000 square miles, with a population of 3,- 

 750,000. Its forest area is 2,141,000 acres. The Commission 

 finds the total production of wood as 95 million cubic feet, 44 

 per cent, of which is workwood, and 56 per cent, fuelwood. 

 The consumption, however, is 120 million cubic feet, distributed 

 between workwood and fuelwood in equal proportion, 90 per 

 cent, of the workwood being coniferous. The total value of the 

 manufactured lumber reaches $11,000,000, at 23.8 cents per cubic 

 foot, which makes the value per M feet B. 'M. in the neighbor- 

 hood of $20. 



In the 26 years from 1885 to 191 2, a very considerable in- 



