INTR@DUGIORY LETTER: 
Professor N. S. SHALER, 
Director of the Kentucky Geological Survey: 
The accompanying brief report on the Timber of Eastern 
Kentucky is made up from observations made during the prog- 
ress of the geological work in the field which it includes. 
The work on which it is founded is, therefore, secondary, and 
somewhat unsatisfactory in details. It may serve, however, as 
an introduction to a study of the forest growth of this sec- 
tion. 
A: R. CRANDALL, 
Assistant Ky. Geological Survey. 
