5© TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



to the desirability of supporting the scheme financially, and 

 also by offering contributions that will be interesting both to 

 silviculturists and to the home timber trade. The proposal is 

 to erect a typical Village Hall, to be designed by Sir Robert 

 Lorimer, the inside of which will be devoted to a display ot 

 educational and scientific articles, and to examples of manu- 

 factures of wood, and to silviculture generally. The timber ot 

 which the Hall is to be constructed will be supplied by the 

 various donors from Scotland, and the whole will be assembled 

 and prepared for construction at one centre in Scotland. 



Contributions in money, or guarantees, will be received by 

 Mr Robert Galloway, S.S.C, 8 Rutland Square, Edinburgh, 

 and any suggestions or proposals or offers of exhibits should be 

 sent to Mr R. B. Fraser, 34 Queen Street, Edinburgh. 



REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



SchWcW s Manua/ of Forestry: Volume I., Forest Policy in the 

 British Empire. Fourth Edition revised and enlarged, pp. 

 xl + 342. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., Ltd. 



British forestry owes much to the veteran Sir William 

 Schlich, whose text-books form the foundations on which 

 systematic forestry instruction has been built in all English- 

 speaking countries, and the new edition of volume i. of the 

 Manual is a contribution of the first rank, which shows that 

 the master has lost none of his former skill. 



The book has been planned on the same systematic lines as 

 the other volumes of the Manual^ and is an expansion of the 

 previous edition of volume i., which contained an exposition of 

 the General Foundations of Forest Policy, and a short account 

 of the state of Forest Conservancy in the greater part of the 

 British Empire. This account was necessarily incomplete 

 owing to the difficulty of obtaining information on many 

 points. In July 1920 the Imperial Conference received thirty- 

 four statements from the different parts of the Empire contain- 

 ing a flood of new information which made possible the publi- 

 cation of the present volume. The author has recorded all the 



