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ence of 1920. An interesting note by the editor, Mr Fraser 

 Story, in the current issue of the Empire Forestry Journal^ 

 calls further attention to the urgent necessity for standardisation 

 of nomenclature. This is one of the first essentials in bringing 

 to the notice of the trade the enormous choice of timbers, for 

 all purposes, to be obtained within the Empire. Correct 

 terminology is essential if confidence in these timbers is to be 

 established. 



This lamentable want of uniformity is no doubt one of the 

 reasons which might explain the omission of the English trade 

 names just referred to. 



The second edition furnished a series of sixteen plates 

 showing Wood Sections. The history of these is given in the 

 Preface; they were made by Dr Nordlinger from specimens 

 supplied by Sir D. Brandis and photographed at the Royal 

 Indian Civil Engineering College, Cooper's Hill. They are, 

 doubtless, highly instructive, but their value would be con- 

 siderably increased if, in a future edition, they were specially 

 referred to in the text as manifesting this and that structural 

 feature of the timbers in question. 



Erratum. 



In the review of Mr T. S. Woolsey's American Forest 

 Regulation^ which appears in the last issue (Dec. 1922) on 

 p. 258, it should have been stated that Messrs Chapman and 

 Hall, Ltd., London, are the English agents for the sale of the 

 book. 



OBITUARY. 



John Clark. 



The late Mr Clark became a member of the Society 

 when he was an assistant forester in 1867. He served his 

 apprenticeship with his father, who was for many years 

 forester to the Earl of Kintore, at Keithhall, Inverurie, 

 Aberdeenshire. For some years thereafter he was employed on 

 the Kelly estate, Renfrewshire, estates belonging to the late 

 Dr Young, and eventually was appointed forester on the 



