SOME RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SWEDISH FORESTRY. 137 
private forests laid down under this forest-law may not be 
neglected, a Board of Directors, to whose charge the enforcement 
of these regulations is entrusted, is appointed in every Provincial 
Assembly (Landsting), and these Boards have the assistance of 
a forest officer and as many provincial foresters as may be 
necessary. Besides these provincial Boards, there is appointed 
in every parish a Forest Committee, whose duty it is to control, 
and in every possible way encourage, private forestry. 
2. PROTECTION OF NATURE AND ITS CHIEF FEATURES OF 
INTEREST. 
Thanks to the sympathy with which Professor Conwentz’s 
well-known endeavours in connection with this matter have been 
everywhere received, a new law has also been adopted in Sweden, 
the object of which is to protect typical parts of native forests, 
original trees, the forests at their limits of altitude on the 
mountains, and all kinds of trees at the limits of their distribution, 
and, what is more especially to be noted, the protection of the 
interesting and useful forest animals. In this way almost all our 
insectivorous birds are placed under protection of the law; but, 
as most of the birds are migratory, such protection will be wholly 
effective only when the countries of southern Europe have 
adopted correspondingly wise and humane regulations. 
3. INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL FORESTRY. 
Since 1902 we have had the good fortune to possess an 
institution, based on the same lines as the German and Austrian 
institutions of the kind, for the promotion of scientific research 
and experiments in forestry, and for the production of essays and 
reports on forestry matters. This institution, which is situated in 
Stockholm, is maintained at the expense of our Government, and 
.s under the direction of an experienced forest officer, assisted by 
other forest officers and a staff of scientists; and although the 
institution is as yet in its infancy, the foundations of very 
important experiments in connection with our country’s forests 
have already been laid. 
4. PURCHASE OF WOODLANDS BY THE GOVERNMENT. 
The purchase of woodland by the Government has been 
going on for some years, and in 1904 about 290,000 hectares, or 
