CONTENTS. 



PAGB 



291 



314 



XXXV. The Rapid Ageing and Fiieproofing of Wood, . 

 XXXVI. The Twenty-sixth Annual Excursion, July 1903, . . 301 



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

 Showyard at Dumfries, July 1903, . . • • 



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

 Afforestation 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 

 JaVnese Larch and the Larch Disease— The Larch and the 

 Moth— All Russian Timber Society— Reatforesting 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, ..•••• 



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. Watson, Curator, Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, . • • • • ' oai 



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



Government Publications, . • • • .3 



Reports by the Honorary Scientists— 

 Report by the Honorary Cryptogamist, 

 Report of Honorary Consulting Entomologist for Session 

 1903, ..•••••■ 

 Proceedings of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society, 1903. 



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