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Agriculture at Vienna, and official papers on forest police and 

 forest " reboisement " are also of great interest. The question of 

 beech in the Austrian forests is the subject of a paper by Herr 

 Hufnagl ; and a full, well-illustrated account of the small forest 

 wood-industries of Austria is contributed by Prof. Lauboeck. 

 The " reboisement '' works in the Karst region, that curious denuded 

 tract of mountain slopes on the Illyrian coast, are fully desci-ibed 

 in a paper by Herr Pucich. The treatment of spruce forest, and 

 the best systems of preventing the barking of the trees by large 

 game, or the death and damage of forest growth by bad procedure, 

 are discussed by Herr Hermann Reuss. 



The Hungarian contributions to the literature of the Congress 

 are too many to be all mentioned here, but it is right to call 

 attention to Herr Vadas's history of the Forest School of 

 Selmeczbanya, and the same author's very interesting paper on 

 the cultivation of willows as a protection against inundation. 

 The Government publications refer (1) to the forest law of 1879; 

 (2) to the preparation of working-plans ; (3) to the organization 

 of the forest staff; (4) to forest experiments and experimental 

 stations ; (5) to the organization of special schools for forest 

 guards ; and (6) to the history of the National Forest Society. 

 And here it is also right to mention a very interesting account of 

 the development of sylviculture in the Austrian territories of 

 Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Herr Petraschek, who was himself 

 present at the Congress to represent these provinces. 



The forest exhibits of the United States were chiefly intended 

 to illustrate forest utilisation ; the most noticeable features of 

 their section were the beautiful transparencies in the windows 

 illustrating the giant trees of the western States, and the panels 

 and sections of fine-grained woods in the American chalet. 



In the Japanese Court, richly marked bamboo culms formed a 

 remarkable exhibit, as did the huge planks of Cryptomeria and 

 other woods. 



In the Swedish Section the Congress admired a diorama 

 picture of a pine forest, with a lake and mountains beyond, 

 lit up by the glowing colours of a northern sunset; the large 

 model of a saw- mill and timber export yard in the Gulf of 

 Bothnia ; and a pyramid of wood paving blocks marked with the 

 brands of the various firms dealing in that important and 

 increasing article of trade. 



In the British Indian Section, the inspection by the Congress 



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