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Part II. deals more especially with the problems of artificial 

 regeneration. This part contains a large store of valuable 

 information about seed, seedlings and nurseries. The reader 

 will here find facts concerning seeds and seedlings well arranged 

 and clearly described, wliich he may vainly seek for elsewhere. 

 Space prevents our going into further details, but it can be 

 definitely said that nothing has been omitted which has a 

 practical bearing on artificial regeneration. 



The book is profusely illustrated by well-chosen and beauti- 

 fully reproduced photographs. The student of silviculture will 

 find much to interest him in the pages of this book, which forms 

 a valuable addition to a section of forestry literature which 

 has been rather neglected in the past. 



OBITUARY. 



By the death of Mr A. T. Gillanders, the Royal Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society has lost an eminent and highly esteemed 

 member. 



Mr Gillanders was a member of the Society for nineteen 

 years, and during that time he gave freely of his valuable 

 services in all matters relative to the welfare of the Society, 

 and the advancement of forestry, sparing neither time nor 

 trouble in the interests of either. He served on the Council of 

 the Society until quite recently, and was also a member of the 

 Council of the Royal English Arboricultural Society, Forestry 

 Examiner for the Highland Society of Scotland, and held 

 many other important positions. 



Mr Gillanders was fifty-seven years of age at the time of his 

 death, which occurred suddenly on the 15th of July, through an 

 attack of heart trouble, and it is a matter of sincere regret that 

 the services of such an enthusiastic and practical forester should 

 be lost, especially at a time when forestry has a more promising 

 future. 



Mr Gillanders was a native of Drumlithie, Kincardine, and 

 commenced his forestry career as an apprentice on the Durris 

 estates, Kincardineshire, where he remained four years. 

 Removing to Edinburgh, he worked in Messrs Dicksons' nurseries, 

 subsequently taking a situation as under-forester at Cathcart, 



