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December 31st, 1910, has been received recently. 
30 pages of letterpress and 12 of illustrations, and deals with the 
general management and work of the Department, making special 
reference to plantations formed for the supply of railway sleepers. 
The chief items discussed are.—Extension and Constitution of 
State Forests ; Forest Settlements and Demarcations ; Management 
of State Forests ; Indigenous and Exotic Trees, with remarks on 
their interplanting ; Exploitation and Administration. 
e fusion of the four large provinces, Cape, Transvaal, Orange 
Free State, and Natal, occurred during the year. This made it 
discussed with the Rhodes Scholarships Trustees, whereby as the 
demand arises, a Rhodes Scholar, before proceeding to Oxford, 
may obtain a Government nomination which will entitle him to an 
ee trees in Natal and to the turning of sand dunes into forest 
and with the aid of town refuse in the neighbourhoods of Port 
Elizabeth and Cape Town if 
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Forest Flora of Bombay.* Mr. W. A. Talbot, until recently 
Conservator of Forests, to whose enthusiasm we owe much of our 
knowledge of the Flora of N. Kanara, has just completed his 
* Forest Flora of Bombay Presidenc d Sina ae HT. 
Conservator of Forests. 2 es Sy 4to, pp. 508 and orm W. A. Talbot, F.L.S 
