PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 

 FOREST GEOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION. 



In P. Q., vol. II, p. 274, we briefed an ac- 

 Virgin count of a piece of a virgin forest, about 100 



Forest acres, maintained in its natural condition by 



in Count Schwarzenberg in the mountain 



Germany region of Bohemia. Another virgin woods 



of about 120 acres is described by Guse as 

 found in the plains of Oldenburg, otherwise poorly wooded. This 

 very accessible part of Oberforsterei Varel is mainly composed of 

 hard-woods, oak, beech, bluebeech, basswood, elm, birch, aspen, 

 with Ilex aquifolium, the most frequent underbrush. Here, with- 

 out the interference of wind and snow, old oaks of 8 foot diameter, 

 even when dead and entirely hollow remain standing, and when 

 they do break down, the remnants are soon overgrown by shrubs 

 and weeds. Ivy of 8 inch diameter twines around these old giants. 

 The author unfortunately leaves off further description of this 

 interesting tract, devoting the rest of his article to experiences 

 with larch plantations in the same revier. 



Aus dent Grosshersogtum Oldenburg. Zeitschrift fiir Forst- und Jagd- 

 wesen. January, 1912. Pp. 10-15. 



An official report, from which Guse ab- 

 Forests stracts, gives insight into the development of 



of forest management in the Pacific coast region 



Siberia of Russia, Kamtschatka, Sachalin and the 



Amur district. The first attempt at a man- 

 agement dates to 1898. In 1910, 21 districts had been organized. 

 With 57 officials looking after about 200 million desjatinen (500 

 million acres), there is, of course, little administration or even 

 protection ; the natives use the woods as before. 



Export is hardly developed. The income is, however, about 

 $400,000. Only the forests of the Amur and coast region are of 

 value, some 130 million desjatinen (325 million acres). The 

 vegetation is most varied ; on small areas far nothern and southern 

 forms are found together. The ocean with its continuous mists 



