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that in 1898 the3e products were exported to a value of about 

 £180,000. If such energy can be displayed in the proper 

 management of forests in regions which, like these of northern 

 Russia, are but poorly supplied with railways and means of 

 transport, it ought to be possible to do more in Great Britain. 

 We have here in places large areas of pine forest, often of 

 branching trees poor in capability of yielding timber, but which 

 might be utilised, without the need of felling, as a source of 

 supply of resin and turpentine, in order to lessen the amount 

 which the country has to purchase from abroad, and chiefly from 

 France and America. In the Russian Section there was an 

 important exhibit by the Muscovite Society of Forestry, whose 

 headquarters are at Moscow, and whose work I shall refer to 

 later on. 



The grand collections sent by Austria and Hungary were most 

 complete in every detail. Sylviculture in all its phases, Forest 

 Utilisation in many branches, Forest Protection, Reboisement 

 work, Forest Law, Forest Education, Forest Surveys, and Forest 

 Engineering, all found excellent and interesting representa- 

 tives among the varied and beautiful exhibits. Sylviculture 

 was represented by pictures and photographs of forests, both 

 natural and artificial ; sections of trees cut and arranged so as 

 to show the growth aud analysis of type-stems of different species, 

 accompanied by tables of form factors and graphic statements of 

 increment ; models and tools to represent plantation work and so 

 on, but most especially by copies of selected working plans, with 

 the maps and control books belonging to them. 



In connection with Forest Utilisation were seen specimens of 

 the various tools used in forestry, models of export-roads, sledge- 

 roads, tram-lines, wire tramways, saw-mills, rafting works, and 

 catching booms, required in the export of timber; while such 

 forest industries as the manufacture of paper-pulp, the pre- 

 paration of charcoal, tar, turpentine, acetic acid, and such-like 

 products, the cutting of veneers and parquet-wood, the manufac- 

 ture of shoe3, pipes, baskets, and of innumerable other small 

 articles whose preparation gives employment to thousands of 

 skilled workmen in villages adjoining the forests — all these and 

 many others evince the great importance to wealth and pros- 

 perity which is given by the possession of such valuable 

 forest estates. Among special Rsboi-iement works which were 

 represented, came the Austrian works in the Alps, where about 



