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spite the extensive forest propaganda of the last few years so 

 little has been accomplished on private lands, and it is to be hoped 

 that the influence of men like Mr. Spring who take up the prac- 

 tice of private forestry will stimulate the more rational manage- 

 ment of private forests. 



Hofrath Friedrich, the director of the Austrian Forest Experi- 

 ment Station at Mariabrunn, died September 26, 1908. Fried- 

 rich's specialty lay in the devising of forest instruments, among 

 which a precision xylometer, a precision caliper measuring to 

 1/1000 millimeter, a dendrometer, and especially an auxano- 

 meter — an instrument to measure the growth energy in diameter 

 (see F. Q., Vol. IV, p. 52), and a large number of others. The 

 last work of the late author detailing some results obtained with 

 the auxanometer is briefed on p. 75 of this issue. 



Timberland Legislation is the title of an article written by 

 Judge Judd, Professor of Equity Jurisprudence, of Equity Plead- 

 ing, of the Law of Torts, Wills and Sales in Vanderbilt Uni- 

 versity. Judge Judd is known all over the South as a constitu- 

 tional lawyer. This article is undoubtedly the first article of its 

 kind. It shows the relation of Federal and State governments 

 to timberland in hands of private owners — and the established 

 legal principles that control the solution of the problem which 

 the lumbermen will have to meet. 



This article will be of especial interest to technical students as 

 well as to lumbermen who are interested in the protection of our 

 forests. 



A forestry congress is being prepared for at Bologna under 

 the auspices of the Society Pro montibus et silvis for the purpose 

 of pressing a thorough and radical reform of forest legislation 

 for Italy. 



Germany has adopted forestry regulations for her Togo colony, 

 owing to the destruction of timber and deforestation of the coun- 

 try by the natives. The latter clear new areas by fire and 

 abandon their exhausted lands. The regulations provide for the 

 protection of the remaining forests and the planting of 112 square 

 miles annually. 



