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Commissioners, with the Dominion Forestry Branch, and with a 

 number of lumber companies and timber limit holders. All the 

 usual means, including moving picture shows, are used to edu- 

 cate the public. It seems that campers' and travellers' fires are 

 now the most frequent cause, with 30 per cent, next to it brush- 

 burning, with 26 per cent, while railway fires are reduced to 

 less than 10 per cent, a similar per cent being credited to light- 

 ning. Less than half the expenditure of the previous year was 

 made, namely $176,881, of which $19,449 for fire fighting, reduc- 

 ing the cost per fire to $61 as against $319 the previous year; 

 but a larger percentage of fires was left to take care of itself. 

 A gratifying statement is to the efifect, that ''notwithstanding 

 adverse financial conditions, considerable areas of logging slash 

 were disposed of by logging operators on their own initiative." 

 No damage resulted from these burnings, and operators are so 

 well satisfied that each year will see more of it. Unfortunately, 

 no statements of cost are made. 



The whole report from beginning to end breathes a business 

 air which is a credit to the Forest Branch. 



B. E. F. 



Meddelanden fran Statens Skogsforsoksanstalt. Haeftet 13, 

 1915. Stockholm. 1916. Pp. 161 -\- xxviii. 



As usual, this volume is full of interest from the organization 

 point of view, being a report on the activities of the Swedish 

 Experiment Station for the period 1912-14, and containing the 

 working plan for the following triennial period, the custom of 

 a working period of three years being continued. 



In gratifying manner, most of the longer discussions are briefed 

 in German, and, now, in addition, some are briefed in English 

 at the end of the volume. 



The Station is divided in two sections, the natural history 

 section and the forestry section, Dr. Hesselman being chief of 

 the former, Gunnar Schotte of the latter. Considering that the 

 whole establishment is allotted less than $12,000, its product is 

 certainly admirable in quantity and quality. 



The forestry section studies the increment of different forest 

 types on (by the end of 1914) 42 sample areas ; it conducted 



