CONTENTS. 



PAOE 



XXXVII, Forestry Ethibition in the Highland and Agricultural Society's 



Showyard at Dumfries, July 1903, . . . .314 



Notes and Queries : — Forest Fires — Railway Rates — Re- 

 Atforestation in Italy — Forestry at the Royal Agricultural 

 College, Cirencester — The late Mr Hanbury on the Depart- 

 mental Committee's Report— The President of the Board of 

 Agriculture on Forestry — Forestry Instruction at the Forest 

 of Dean — The Preservation, Seasoning, and Strengthening 

 of Timber — Prevention of Sparks from Railway Engines — 

 Water-Supplies: Afforestation of Catchment Areas — The 

 Canadian Forestry Association — Notes on Co-operative 

 Agricultural Credit in Germany and Switzerland — The 

 Japanese Larch and the Larch Disease — The Larch and the 

 Moth — All Russian Timber Society — Realibresting the Black 

 Country — Teaching of Forestry in the Provinces — Foreign 

 Plants: Japanese Larch — British Forestry Exhibition — Prize 

 Essay on Forestry — Systematic Management of Woods — 

 Sweden — Proposed School of Forestry for Wales — On the 

 Principal Advantages of using Chloride of Barium for the 

 Impregnation of Railway Sleepers, and for the Preservation 

 of Wood in general, . . . . . . 316 



Notices of Books — 



The Gardener's Assistant, by the late Robert Thomson, of 

 the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens," Chiswick. 

 New Edition, edited by Wm, Watsox, Curator, Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, . . . . . .341 



Webster's Foresters' Diary and Pocket Book for 1904, . 342 



Government Publications. . . - . . . 342 



Reports by the Honorary Scientists — 



Report by the Honorary Cryptogamist, . . .343 



Report of Honorary Consulting Entomologist for Session 



1903, . . . . . . . .345 



Proceedings of the Royal Scottish Auborictjltural 

 Society, 1903. 



