CURRENT LITERATURE. 



Indo-Malayan Woods. By Fred W. Foxworthy, Ph. D. 

 Philippine Journal of Science, Section of Botany. Vol IV, No. 4, 

 October, 1909 Pp. 184, plates 9. Price, 50 cents. 



Dr. Foxworthy, in this paper, has given us by far the best work 

 ever published on the woods of the Indo-Malayan region. 



The objects aimed at by the Philippine Government in having 

 the study made were to correlate the Philippine woods with the 

 related or identical forms in other sections ; and then to call 

 attention to the structure, uses, and distribution of the eastern 

 woods. 



Very little is really known about the forests and woods of this 

 district except by a very few ; and as there was no one work which 

 described accurately the woods of the region and their uses, to- 

 gether with the local names by which they are known in different 

 parts of the district, the great importance and value of the work 

 can be seen. 



Even the extent of the area is but faintly realised by most. 

 Dr. Foxworthy defines the region to take in all of Ceylon, British 

 India, Burma, Andamans, Siam, Cochin China, Malay Peninsula, 

 Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines, and all of the Malay and 

 Indian Archipelago down to New Guinea — in other words, nearly 

 all of the tropical east. As so few are acquainted with the dis- 

 trict, a table showing areas and population is given. 



English Territory. 



Area 

 Sq. mi. 



Area 

 Sq. mi. 



Population 

 Population 



Ceylon, 25,000 3,600,000 



Indian Empire, 1,767,000 294,400,000 

 Federated Malay States 



of Malay Peninsula, 37,000 1,500,000 



British Borneo, 84,000 493,000 



Density 

 per sq. mi. 



Density 

 per sq. mi. 



141 

 167 



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