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for wire fences (vol. x., p. 32). He has also contributed to the 

 Transactions a number of useful articles on forestry and allied 

 subjects. Ever an ardent meteorologist, Mr Kay has for about 

 30 years kept a continuous record of the rainfall and other 

 weather phenomena at his residence, Barone Cottage, Rothesay, 

 and it may be mentioned that it was he who rescued from the 

 flames the meteorological records of the town of Rothesay, 

 which can now boast of possessing a continuous rainfall record 

 from 1800 to the present time. A. D. R. 



REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



SchlicKs Manual of Forestry. Volume III., Forest Managejuent. 

 By Sir Wm. Schlich, K.C.I.E., F.R.S., etc., Professor of 

 Forestry, University of Oxford. Fourth Edition, Revised. 

 Bradbury, Agnew & Co., London. Price 5s. 



A new edition of Sir William Schlich's erudite and compre- 

 hensive work on "Forest Management" appears at a most 

 opportune moment, when questions relating to afforestation 

 and to the introduction of scientific methods into forestry 

 are being urged upon the Government, the members of 

 the Development Commission, and forest owners. It is 

 certain that action will shortly be taken along lines sug- 

 gested by various representative committees, especially in the 

 direction of the carrying out of forest surveys, the collection 

 of forest statistics, and the application of sound principles of 

 management either to one or more existing forest areas, or 

 to woods hereafter to be created. Whatever may be done 

 in this direction, we know of no English work which explains so 

 clearly as Sir William Schlich's does, how all these various matters 

 can best be handled. Commencing with the collection of 

 statistics, by means of which alone data can be made available, 

 enabling the forest owner to apply to forestry the financial tests 

 which are recognised as imperative in all other commercial under- 

 takings, the author proceeds to explain clearly the manner in which 

 method and order may be introduced into the working of existing 

 forests, based on a careful estimation of the capital or growing 

 stock actually present on the ground, and on a correct calcu- 



