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forestry research, technical advice, etc. Of this, $12,500 went to 

 support advisory officers at Oxford, Cambridge, Cirencester, 

 Bangor and Newcastle. 



Steps were taken to enable the utilization of the Forest of Dean 

 for a forest demonstration area. An equipment grant of $68,500 

 provides for a foresters' school, woodmen's school, museum, 

 library, laboratory and arboretum. The maintenance grant for 

 the ensuing year is $8,500, which seems low. It is expected that 

 the Dean Forest will thus develop into a national centre for 

 forestry studies and experiments. 



The Corporation of the City of Liverpool was recommended 

 for a loan of $125,000 for afforestation purposes. 



J. H. W. 



Fourth Report of the Development Commissioners. The Journal of the Board 

 of Agriculture, October, 1914, pp. 663-64. 



Scottish Forestry in regard to the Developmetit Fund. Royal Scottish Arbori- 

 cultural Society, vol. XXVIII, part 2, 1914, pp. 138-53. 



"The first annual joint report of the 



Statistics Forestry Branches of the Board of Agricul- 



Great Britain ture and the Crown Office of Woods gives, 



besides a review of the year's work, a brief 



survey of the attitude of the State towards forestry from early 



times to the present, an outline of the history and present position 



of the Crown forests, together with descriptions of the woodman's 



school and the distillation works on the Forest of Dean. An 



account is also given of the timber trade of the United Kingdom 



from the eighteenth century onwards. A map showing the 



extent of woodlands and uncultivated land in England and Wales 



accompanies the report." 



From the report we learn that the total woodland in England 

 and Wales is about 1,884,000 acres, 3.4% of which belongs to the 

 Crown. The annual production for Great Britain is arotmd 20 

 million cubic feet, or about 4% of the raw material used in the 

 Kingdom. The imports of wood (manufactured and unmanu- 

 factured) into the United Kingdom averaged $160 million annually 

 for the decade 1903-1912. The imports of the principal kinds of 

 unmanufactured timber had risen 23.5% per capita in 1911 over 

 that of 1891. 



J. H.W 



Forestry Report for 1912-13. The Journal of Board of Agriculture, August, 

 1914, pp. 430-33. 



