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of original observations and experiments. It is illustrated by a 

 number of excellent photographs and figures, and forms a useful 

 addition to our knowledge of disease in forest trees at a time 

 when such knowledge is of outstanding importance. 



M. Wilson. 



Forest Law in America. By J. P. Kinney 1 , A.B., LL.B., M.F., 

 Chief Supervisor of Forests, United States Indian Service. 

 New York : John Wiley & Sons. London : Chapman 

 and Hall, Ltd. 



This book is a historical presentation of the successive 

 enactments by the legislatures of the forty-eight States of the 

 American Union and by the Federal Congress directed to the 

 conservation and administration of Forest Resources. It 

 consists of 254 pages, an elaborate index covering 21 pages, 

 and a copious table of contents. Extensive references to Laws 

 are given both by date of the act and chapter number and 

 often by page in its Session Laws. The preparation of the 

 book must have involved the author in an immense amount of 

 work, and he is to be congratulated upon the result. The book 

 is beautifully printed in clear type on good paper, and reflects 

 great credit on the publishers as well as on the author. 



One or two historical facts may be worth mentioning, such 

 as the institution of Arbor Day in Nebraska, in 1872, an 

 institution which soon spread to other States. The Minnesota 

 Forestry Association, which was the first association for the 

 sole purpose of promoting the planting of forest trees and the 

 general practice of forestry, was formed in 1876, and received 

 legislative recognition in the appropriation of money for 

 expenditure under its direction in the form of bounties for 

 tree planting. 



Colorado was the first State to incorporate in its Constitution 

 a provision that specifically authorised a definite State forest 

 policy, but no effective steps followed for a considerable time 

 thereafter. 



1 This book is by the same author as The Essentials of American Timber 

 Law, reviewed on page 1 18 of the last issue of the Transactions. The present 

 review was written for that number, and was intended to precede the other 

 review — whence the statement with which it opens that "This work is by the 

 same author as the book noticed above." At the last moment the present 

 review had to be held over owing to pressure on space, and, as a result of 

 the similarity of title, a certain confusion has occurred between the two books 

 in the January Table of Contents. 



