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Webster's Foresters' Diary and Pocket Book, 1924. William 



Rider & Son, Ltd., London. Price 3s. 6d. . . . 66 



Sylva : The Annual Publication of the Edinburgh University 



Forestry Society. No. 4, 1923. Price is. . . 6-] 



Notes on La Foret de Trongais. By R. Maclagan Gorrie, 



B.Sc, LF.S 67 



6. Empire Forestry Dinner, 1924 ..... 69 



7. Report of the Annual Excursion, 1924 . . -77 



8. An Enquiry into the Suitability of Scottish-grown Timber for 



Aeroplane and Pit-Prop Purposes Continuation). By Prof. 



T. Hudson Beare, M.Inst.C.E., D.L. . .92 



9. On the Attacks of Helix aspersa on Young Sycamores at 



the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St Andrews. By Prof. 

 M'Intosh .III 



10. A New Disease of the Silver Firs in Scotland (With Plates). 



By Malcolm Wilson, D.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., Reader 

 in Mycology, University of Edinburgh, and James 

 Macdonald, B.Sc. . • . .114 



11. A Tour in Australia. By R. G. Robinson, Superintendent, 



Selwyn Plantation Board, Christchurch, N.Z. .119 



12. The Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford. By P. S. Spokes, 



Acting Secretary . . . . .125 



13. A Dieback, and Bark Disease of Willows, attacking the 



Young Twigs. By N. L. Alcock . . . .128 



14. Making a Nursery on Loch Katrine Side. By John Munro, 



Glasgow Corporation Water Works, Afforestation Section 131 



15. Report on the Forestry Exhibition at the Highland and 



Agricultural Society's Show at Perth, 1924. By James K. 

 Leven, B.Sc. ....... 135 



16. Excursion to Dawyck. By Geo. U. Macdonald . . 138 



17. The Empire Forestry Journal. By Eraser Story . .142 



Notes and Queries :— Artificial Manures : Record of Nursery 

 Experiments — Particulars of Specimen of Larix Europaea 

 felled at Drummond Hill, Kenmore, ist April 1924 (With 

 Plate) — *' Purple " Spruce — Bagley Wood Arboretum — 

 Report on Results obtained from Seed of Douglas Fir 

 presented in 1922 — Forest Production in Canada for 1922 — 

 The Institute of Handicraft Teachers, Edinburgh Branch . 144 



Reviews and Notices of Books ;— The Cultivated Evergreens. 

 Edited by L. H. Bailey. Macmillan & Co. Price 

 31S. 6d. net. ....... 153 



