CONTENTS 



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 or views expressed by the authors of papers. 



1. An Industrial Opportunity. By John Sutherland, C. B.E., 



F.S.I 



2. Tree-Roots : Their Action and Development (with Plates) 



By Ernest V. Laing, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 



3. Preliminary Experiments on the Germination of Conifer Seeds 



By Helen I. A. Gray, M.A., B.Sc. . 



4. Notes on the Forests of Auvergne. By R. Maclagan Gorrie, 



B.Sc, I.F.S 26 



5. A Comparison of the Rates of Growth of Scots Pine {Pinus 



sy/uestns) and Corsican Pine [Pinus Laricio) (with Plates). 



By R. Shaw ....... 35 



6. The Empire Forestry Journal . . .40 



Notes and Queries :— Pinus ponclerosa — Rosellinia on 

 Spruce Seedlings — Green Spruce Aphis — Regeneration 

 of Cupressus Lawsoniana — The Ring Wood Plantation, 

 Murthly Estate— Unemployment Forestry Grants : Income 

 Tax— A Pole Railway for the Removal of Timber from 

 Steep and Difficult Hillsides^Tree Repairing — British 

 Timber Exhibition, 1924 . . . . .42 



Reviews and Notices of Books :— Schlich's Manual of 

 Forestry : Volume I., ' ' Forest Policy in the British Empire." 

 Fourth Edition revised and enlarged, pp. xl + 342. London : 

 Bradbury, Agnew & Co., Ltd. . . .50 



Lumber : Its Manufacture and Distribution. By Ralph 

 Clement Bryant, F.E., M.A. Published by Chapman and 

 Hall, Ltd., London, 1922. Price, 23s. net . . .51 



Handbook of Field and Office Problems in Forest Mensura- 

 tion. By Hugo Winkenwerder and Elias T. Clark. 

 Second Edition. Published by Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 

 London, 1922. Price. los. . . . . .52 



