11 CONTEXTS. 



PAGK 



XVin. The Twenty-fifth Annual Excursion— Sweden, 18th July to 



3rd August 1902. [With Photograph— if?-o?ifo'spzcc'c], . .146 



XIX. Forestry Exhibition in the Highland and Agricultural Society's 



Showyard at Aberdeen, .Tuly 1902, . . . .149 



Repouts ]!Y Honorary Scientists: — Report by A. W. Borth- 



wiCK, B.Sc, Honorary Consulting Cryptogamist, . . 153 



Notes and Qxjeries: — Pathological Specimens for the Society's 

 Exhibition at the Highland and Agricultural Show^ — The Civil 

 Engineers on British Forestry — Treatment of Canker in Trees 

 — A New Danger for the Larch — Timber of the Silver Fir and 

 of the Spruce — Larch on Sakhalin — Department of Woods 

 and Forests for AVest Africa — The Douglas Fir — Damage by 

 Squirrels — The Problem of the Unemployed, . . . 155 



Reviews of Books — 



Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Appli- 

 cations of the Timbers of Commerce. By G. S. Boulger, 

 F.L.S., F.RH.S., A.S L, . . . . .163 



Timber: A Comprehensive Study of Wood in all its Aspects, 

 Commercial and Botanical, showing the Different Applica- 

 tions and Uses of Timber in Various Trades, etc. Translated 

 from the French of Paul Charpentier by Joseph 

 Kennell, . . . . . . .166 



A Manual of Indian Timbers. By J. S. Gamble, M. A., 

 C.I.E., F.R.S., F.Z.S., , . . . .167 



Webster's Foresters' Diary and Pocket Book for 1903, . . 167 



Utilisation of Wood Waste. By Ernest Hubbard. Trans- 

 lated from the German by M. J. Sacii, F.I.C, F.C.S., . 168 



Prockedings of the Royal S(;ottlsh Arboricultural 

 Society, 1902. [With Appendices.] 



Proceedings of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 



Society, 1903. [With Appendices.] 

 List of Members, corrected to March 1903. 



