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Sir John Stirling Maxwell contributes a review of a report 

 by the United States Forest Service on the timber depletion 

 of that country. So well defined in this report is the shadow 

 of impending famine, that one would wish to go into many of 

 the details mentioned in the review with the remarks on cause 

 and effect. The extracts from this report, teeming with notices 

 of over-cutting and depletion, show that the English-speaking 

 countries, with little economic foresight, still maintain a high 

 record for the destruction of timber lands But the approach 

 of a timber shortage in the States is not a matter that affects 

 that country alone, since every country that uses timber will 

 feel the effect, and those countries will suffer most whose own 

 home production is low. It is a warning which the British 

 people should heed before it is too late, and lay in their stores 

 in woods within the country. 



The prize essay on the " Silvicultural Treatment of Eucalypts " 

 is completed in this number. We read with envy of species 

 that may be planted at distances up to 15 feet apart without 

 deteriorating the quality of the timber, but, while unfortunately 

 eucalypts cannot be treated as a timber crop in this country, 

 we feel sure that foresters in this and many other parts of 

 the world will lind much of interest in this clearly-written paper. 



Forestry research in India is briefly dealt with in an article 

 by Sir George Hart. In this he gives the outlines of what has 

 been done in the establishment of the Research Station at 

 Dehra Dun. The numbers and classes of officers that it was 

 proposed should be allocated to this work is given, but it is 

 stated that the appointment of many of these has been delayed 

 pending more favourable financial conditions. 



There is also an interesting account of an apparently un- 

 successful attempt at the moral reform of the Chenchu tribe. 

 This is one of the wild tribes of Madras Presidency and, from 

 the description of the mode of life of the tribesmen, might well 

 be classed along with the other criminal tribes of India. It 

 might even give some of these a lead in villainy. The 

 difficulties in which the police officer became involved are at 

 times amusing to us at this distance, but one ceases reading 

 the note with a feeling of admiration for the perseverance and 

 ingenuity with which the attempt at reform was carried out. 



Mr R. Maclagan Gorrie contributes a note on "A Swiss 

 System of Forest Management." In this he describes what 



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