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Cuapter III. is divided into four parts, and treats of the forests 
of the British Colonies :— 
Part 1 refers to the exhibits from Sierra Leone, and the Gambia, 
the Cape of Good Hope, and the Mauritius. 
Part 2 to the forests of Cyprus, Ceylon, Johore, and the Straits 
Settlements, and the exhibits therefrom. 
Part 3 to the forests and exhibits from Australia, North Borneo, 
and Labuan. 
Part 4 to the exhibits from Canada, British Guiana, St Vincent, 
and Tobago. 
Cuarrer I[V.—This chapter contains a concise, but full account 
of the exhibits sent by foreign governments, viz. :—France, Ger- 
many, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Italy, Switzerland, the 
United States of America, and Japan. The last country has had 
full justice done to it by the Professor, as indeed it deserved. It 
was most fully and effectively represented in the Exhibition by 
Messieurs Takei and Takasima ; and the pictures of forest scenery, 
forest maps, and illustrations of forest work, as well as the exhibits 
themselves, were highly instructive and interesting. 
The Appendices contain :—1. A classified list of exhibits. 2. 
List of prizes offered for competition by the committee. 3. Statis- 
tics of the Forest of Dean. 4. List of forest works by Dr Croumbie 
Brown. 5. Statistics of growth of teak from the Nilambur planta- 
tions. 6. Method of preserving timber employed in Japan. 7. 
Forest school at Tokio (Japan). 8. Regulations concerning the 
Forest School of Japan. 
We cannot commend too highly this most interesting and useful 
Report, not only to Scottish foresters, but to all who are interested 
in forestry everywhere. Scottish foresters, however, may be well 
proud of the minute attention and careful criticism bestowed on 
their Exhibition by the learned Professor, who has truly recognised 
the merit of this attempt on their part to bring to the serious 
notice of a public only too prone “to pass by on the other side,” 
and neglect it, a science so important to the development of the 
great natural forest riches of their country. Under the impression 
that forests always grew somehow of themselves, and that they 
will do so as long as the world lasts, people in general pay but 
little attention to the fact that civilisation, and the increase in the 
number of the world’s inhabitants, has changed all these conditions 
of Nature; and that in proportion as these conditions are more 
and more developed, so forests will more and more be swept away 
