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Annual Report of the Director of Forestry of the Philippine 

 Islands for the year 1907- 1908. Major G. P. Ahern, Director. 

 Manila, 1908. Pp. 26. 



This report is especially interesting as showing the progress of 

 the actual work of organization of the Philippine forests. In 

 the pine forests of northern Luzon where fires are particularly 

 dangerous the experiment of employing Igorot natives as fire 

 wardens has been tried and very successfully. The development 

 of a native force of foresters is one of the most important prob- 

 lems in the Philippines. Sir Dietrich Brandis early recognized 

 the necessity of a native service in India and the success of the 

 plan he inaugurated is well known. It is encouraging that the 

 problem of education in forestry has been taken up in the Philip- 

 pines. A practical school of instruction for rangers will be 

 started in Bataan on the logging operations of the Cadwallader 

 Company. Theoretical instruction will also be given at Manila. 

 In the future, candidates for the position of ranger will have to 

 pass an examination in forestry. 



Forest maps have been completed for most of southern and 

 central Luzon and the Zamboanga Peninsula of Mindoro ; also 

 isolated parts of other Islands. Working plans have been made 

 for at least one large concession in Mindanao. The research 

 section of the Bureau shows the same excellent progress. 



H. S. G. 



Proceedings of the Connecticut Forestry Association. Publi- 

 cation No. 6. Hartford, 1909. Pp. 43. 



This bulletin contains a number of papers read before the vari- 

 ous forestry institutes held throughout the State under the au- 

 spices of the Association. Mr. Austin F. Hawes has a paper on 

 Government-owned forests in which he gives an account of what 

 is accomplished in different countries abroad. He draws a par- 

 allel with this country and pleads for State forestry and for reser- 

 vations owned and operated by the States, particularly in the 

 East. In a paper entitled American Forestry, Professor Graves 

 discusses the general problems of forestry in this country and how 

 they may be worked out. These two papers are general in 

 character. Other papers by Mr. E. M. C. Eddy, Elliot B. Bron- 



