CONTENTS. 



PAOK 



Rei'dkts by the Honorary Scientists — 



Report by R. Stewart MacDougall, M. A., D.Sc, F.K.S.E., 



Honorary Cousulting Entomologist, .... 208 

 Report by A. W. Borthwick, D.Sc, Honorary Consulting 



Cryptogamist. . . . . . .212 



Larch Disease Inquiry: Report by Sub-Committee appointed 



10th December 1904, . . . . . .213 



Notes and Queries :^Experiiuental Plots at Cockle Park — 

 Parliament and Forestry — St Louis Exhibition — The Creosoting 

 of Spi'uce, Larch, Oak, and Scots Pine — Railway Sleepers from 

 Irish-grown Timber — Chiltern Hills Beech — Scientific Tree- 

 butt Blasting — British Oak for Wood -Paving — Jarrah and 

 Karri — Sweden's New Forestry Laws — The Forests of Poland — 

 Russia's Timber Tiude with the United Kingdom — The Timber 

 Resources of European Russia — The Forests of the United 

 States — American Forestry Congress — Influence of Forests on 

 Climate — ^The Uses of Wood in Japan — Forestry Education at 

 the Imperial University of Tokio — Teaching of Forestry in the 

 Provinces — Forestry at the Edinburgh University — Appoint- 

 ments to Forestry Lectureships, etc., in 1904 — Edinburgh 

 University Forestry Class — University of Edinburgh : List of 

 Names of Students and Graduates who have obtained 

 Educational or Administrative Appointments in Forestry or 

 Agricultm'e, and who, with the exception of the Last Five on 

 the List (one of whom was the First Lecturer on Forestry), 

 were Students of the Forestry Class in the University — The 

 Brechin Arboricultural Society — Imports of Timber into the 

 United Kingdom, 190-3 and 1904, . . .219 



Reviews and Notices of Books— 



English Estate Forestry. By A. C. Forbes, F.H. A.S. , Lecturer 



on Forestry, Durham College of Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 239 

 Trees: a Handbook of Forest- Botany for the Woodlands and 



the Laboratory. By H. Marshall Ward, Sc.D., F.R.S., 



etc., ........ 241 



The Timbers of Commerce and their Identification. By 



Herbert Stone, F.L.S., F.R.C.I., . . .242 



Forestry. Translated from the German of Dr Adam Schwap- 



PACH by Eraser Story and Eric A. Nobbs, Ph.D., 



B.Sc, F.H.A.S., ...... 243 



Schlich's Manual of Forestry. By W. Schlich, Ph.D., 



CLE., F.R.S., F.L.S., ..... 243 



Proceedings of the Royal Scottish Akhoricultural 



Society, 1904. [With Appendices.] 

 Proceedings of the Royal Scottish Akhoricultural 



Society, 1905. [With Appendices.] 

 Llst of Members, corrected to April 1 90.'>. 



