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liminary research, the publication of which may be considered of 

 advantage in aiding others to carry out further observations on 

 the same subject. Notes and observations supplied by forest 

 officers on such matters as the effects of exceptional seasons on 

 forest growth, the seeding of the valuable species of trees, sudden 

 attacks of serious pests, etc., will find a place in the Records. 

 The Records will deal strictly with professional matters, and 

 should form a valuable current exposition of the work of the 

 Department, which will be of interest and utility alike to the 

 members of the service and to scientists and those interested in 

 forestry throughout the world. 



The Indian Forest Memoirs will only appear when monographs 

 suitable for reproduction in this form are received. They will 

 be devoted to the publication of complete and important mono- 

 graphs on particular subjects. For example, memoirs dealing 

 with careful research made into the silviculture of a particular 

 species of tree, or with a family or genus of insect or fungus 

 pests or the description of new species ; researches into the for- 

 mation, growth and economic uses of a particular gum, dye, 

 tannin, etc. The Memoirs will be kept strictly technical, and 

 will be open to the papers of all authors, having a scientific or 

 economic bearing upon Indian forestry. 



The pages of the above publications will be open to all who 

 desire to secure for their researches a permanent place in Indian 

 forest literature, whence it will be available to all those interested 

 in the science of forestry. 



The Albert or Hemlock Spruce at Loganbank. 



By invitation of Mr A, W. Inglis, and in company with 

 Dr A. W. Borthwick, I recently examined the Albert spruces 

 at Loganbank, Midlothian, where trees about 40 years old have 

 attained a height of 80 feet, or, in other words, show an average 

 annual height-increment of about 2 feet. They have a very 

 healthy appearance, and have by no means done growing. 

 A group of these trees standing in an old stone-quarry have 

 developed straight cylindrical stems, on which the dead side- 

 branches persist after the manner of those of the silver fir 

 and Norway spruce. The species can stand much shade, for 

 we saw a bed of young plants which for the last four years have 



