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CONTENTS. 



Reviews and Notices of Books:— Tree Wounds and Diseases, 

 their Prevention and Treatment, with Special Chapter on 

 Fruit Trees. By A. D. Webster. London : Williams 

 and Norgate ....... 74 



British-Grown Timber and Timber Trees. By Angus D. 

 Webster. With 41 full-page plates. London : William 

 Rider & Son, Limited, 1916. Price 5s. . 75 



The Testing of Forest Seeds during Twenty- Five Years, 



1887-1912. By Johannes Rafn . .76 



Seeding and Planting : A Manual for the Guidance of 

 Forestry Students, Foresters, Nurserymen, Forest Owners 

 and Factors. By James W. Tourney, M.S., M.A, 

 Director of Forest School and Professor of Silviculture, 

 Yale University . . . . -77 



Obituary :— Mr A. T. Gillanders— Mr W. M. Gilbert . 78 



16. Statement by the Council regarding Afforestation . . Si 



17. The Society's Annual Meeting: President's Address and 



Discussion . . . . . .91 



18. Organisation and Activities of the Chinese Forest Service. 



By Forsythe Sherfesee, Adviser in Forestry 115 



19. Chermesidae in Relation to British Forestry (with Plates). 



By H. M. Steven, B.Sc: Forestry), Carnegie Research 

 Scholar in Entomology, the University of Edinburgh 131 



20. The Importance of Plantation Margins. By Alexander 



Murray . . . . . . . .156 



21. An Improved Transplanting Lath (with Plate). By J. 



Lyford-Pike, B.Sc. (Forestry), B.Sc. (Agriculture) 160 



22. Forestry Work by Boy Scouts and Schoolboys . .162 



Notes and Queries:— The Society's Roll of Honour: Fifth 

 List — Forestry and Schoolboys — Timber Transport (with 

 Plate) — Over- Ripe and Dying Trees — Particulars of 

 Form-Factors worked out for Corsican Pine and Larch . 168 



Obituary: — The late James Kay . , .174 



Proceedings of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, 

 1917, with Appendices. 



