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considerations given under this title, are as nothing compared 

 with the impression the eye-witness receives." The author rec- 

 ommends the placing of practically the entire area under forest 

 reservation and he discusses plans for its protection from fire. 



C. D. H. 



Forest Protection in Canada, 1913-1914. By Clyde Leavitt. 

 Commission of Conservation. Ottawa, Canada. 1915. Pp. 317. 



In a very attractively prepared and well illustrated volume, 

 the second report of the Forester for the Commission of Con- 

 servation has been issued, covering the years 1913 and 1914, 

 This report, which is partly the work of Dr. C. D. Howe and 

 Mr. J. H. White, and to which several others have contributed, 

 is divided into six parts. 



Part I deals with the work of administering General Order 

 Number 107, of the Board of Railway Commissioners for 

 Canada. This Order places upon the railways under the jurisdic- 

 tion of the Board — about 85 per cent of the railway mileage 

 of Canada — the responsibility for safeguarding lands adjacent 

 to their rights of way from fire damage caused by railway opera- 

 tion, the manner of safeguarding being left to the Chief Fire 

 Inspector, who is at the same time Forester of the Commission, 

 to prescribe. This work was first organized in the Western 

 Provinces in 1912, and the present report deals with the con- 

 tinuation of the work as first organized, the improvements that 

 have been made as a result of experience, and the extension of 

 the work to the Eastern Provinces. In the East, arrangements 

 were perfected for handling the inspection of patrols in Ontario, 

 Quebec and New Brunswick. All inspection for the Board is by 

 officials of the Dominion or the Provincial Government Depart- 

 ments interested, acting as cooperators with the Board of Rail- 

 way Commissioners at their own expense. The fire protection 

 work itself is done entirely by the railway companies, with their 

 own staffs and at their own expense, and the report points out 

 that its efficiency is directly dependent upon the efficiency and 

 sufficiency of the inspection staff provided by the railways and 

 on the development by them of a special organization to handle 

 protection work. Through such a policy the Canadian Northern 



