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of proficiency which it would be difficult otherwise to attain. 

 The museum should thus be of material advantage to them in 

 obtaining, and creditably filling, appointments of importance in 

 their profession. A. Murray. 



[We are' glad to publish the above interesting account of an 

 estate forest museum, and trust that the example set by Murthly 

 may be followed on other Scottish estates. — Hon. Ed.]. 



REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Illustratiotis of Conifers. By H. Clinton Baker. Vol. i. 

 12 + 75 PP) ^^'^^^ 66 beautifully executed full-page plates 

 showing foliage and cones. Printed privately by Simson. 

 Hertford, 1909. 



Mr Clinton Baker has done a real service to the innumerable 

 people in this country who are interested in trees, whether as 

 professionals or as amateurs. 



This is the first occasion when exact reproductions by means 

 of photography of the fruit and branchlets of practically every 

 known conifer have been issued. 1 he photographs have been 

 taken with such care as to render identification from them an 

 immeasurably easier matter than by means of the highly 

 technical botanical descriptions to be found in text books. 

 One only wishes that it might have been possible to place side 

 by side with the pictures of cones and needles, portraits of the 

 living trees from which they came. 



Many of the species included in this volume must be 

 altogether unknown to any but a select fev/ among arbori- 

 culturists ; for instance, how many members of the Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society have seen the fruit and leaves of 

 Fseudotsuga Japonica, or indeed know of that tree's existence ? 

 Since the publication of this work, however, the reviewer has 



