CONTENTS. 



The Society does not hold itself responsible for the statements 

 or views expressed by the authors of papers. 



FAGK 



11. The Society's Annual Meeting: Discussion on the Report 



of the Forestry Sub-Committee, at the Meeting held on 



20th February last . .117 



12. The Special Meeting of the Society : The Central Forest 



Authority . . . . .145 



13. Observations in connection with Annual Increment of grow- 



ing Crops of Timber. By J. H. Milne-Home . . 164 



14. Taxation of Woodlands. By the President . .169 



15. On Nurse Trees in Young Plantations. By Colonel 



Stirling of Keir . . . . '173 



16. A Famous Frenchman and his Garden : M. Gaston AUard 



of Angers. By F. R. S. Balfour . . .180 



17. Damage to Vegetation by Smoke and Fumes. By Alexander 



Lauder, D.Sc, Hon. Consulting Chemist to the Society 181 



i8. Forestry Training for Discharged Soldiers and Sailors 187 



19. The Coniferous Forests of Eastern North America. By 



Dr Roland M. Harper (continued from Vol. xxxi. p. 65) 190 



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

 List— A Summer School — Employment of Girls in Forestry 

 Work— Steel Ships and Need of Timber, 1913— Paper from 

 Saw-Dust ....... 203 



Reviews and Notices of Books : — French Forests and 

 Forestry. By Theodore S. Woolsey, Jun , M.F., 

 Lecturer, Yale Forest School. New York : John 

 Wiley & Son. London : Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 

 238 pp., 20 illustrations. lis. 6d. net . . . 208 



Mental Reckoning Tables. By A. Murray, Forester, 



Murthly. James H. Jackson, 26 High Street, Perth . 210 



Estate Economics. By Andrew Slater. London : Constable 



and Co. , Ltd., 1917, pp. xiii-f 264. Many illustrations . 211 



Forestry Work. By W. H. Whellens. Price 8s. 6d. net. 



T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., London , • . .212 



Proceedings of the Royal Scottish Arbcricultural Society, 

 1918, with Appendices. 



