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present year his successor in office, Mr Thomas Thomson, B.Sc, 

 gives information in the above report on the progress of the 

 experimental plots. The thinning stage will shortly be reached, 

 and the methods employed and the results obtained will greatly 

 enhance the value of the object-lessons to be learned by a visit 

 to this demonstration area. 



Vf^ebsfer's Foresters^ Diary mid Pocket Book, 192J. Published by 

 Messrs William Rider & Sons, London. Price 3s. 6d. net. 



This handy little book contains useful tables, hints for forestry 

 work at different times of the year, and information on many 

 points helpful to foresters and others who have not immediate 

 access to works of reference. There is also a list of foresters 

 and assistant foresters. 



Sylva : Being the Annual Publication of the Edinburgh 

 University Forestry Society. No. 3, 1923. Price is. 



The Edinburgh University Forestry Society has just issued the 

 third number of its annual publication, Sylva. The editor and 

 his business manager are to be heartily congratulated on the 

 excellent shilling-worth they have produced. The magazine 

 runs to over forty pages, with two of photographs. The subject 

 matter is very varied, ranging from accounts of the lighter 

 incidents in a forestry student's course, to reports of the term 

 of practical work in France, and to articles humorous and 

 technical. Amongst the last are a short but very pithy account 

 of the Swiss Method of Control by R. M. G., an interesting 

 account of the peculiar habits of the Processionary Moth, by 

 Mr John N. Oldham, B.Sc, and an instructive and inspiring 

 paper by T. C. C, introducing the new science of Bird (Ecology. 



