loo transactions of roval scottish arbokicultural society. 



New Forestry Books. 



The following list of new books dealing with forestry has been 

 supplied by Messrs Douglas & Foulis : — 



Develop7nent of British Forestry. By A. C. Forbes. Illustrated. 

 Price los. 6d. net, E. Arnold. 



Field Book Sheet Mapping. Price 3s. 6d. net. Chapman & Hall. 



Shade Trees in Towns and Cities. By W. Solotorofif. Price 

 1 25. 6d. net. Chapman & Hall. 



Forest Resources of the World (U. S. Dept. of Forest .Service). 

 By R. Zou. Price 2s. 6d. net. Wesley. 



British Trees, including the finer Shrubs for Garden afid 

 Woodland. By C. A. Johns. New Edition. Edited by E. T. 

 Cook and W. Dallimere. Illustrated. Price 7s. 6d. net. 

 Routledge & Sons. 



Forestry for Woodmen. By C. A. Hanson. Price 5s. net. 

 Clarendon Press. 



Flements of British Forestry: A Handbook for Forest Apprentices^ 

 etc. By J. Nisbet. Price 5s. 6d. net. Blackwood & Co. 



University of Cambridge. 

 Fourth Annual Report of the Forestry Committee. 



\^th Nov( inter 191 1. 



The Forestry Committee beg leave to report to the Senate 

 as follows : 



" The course of instruction since the last report was issued 

 in May 1910 has comprised lectures and demonstrations by 

 the Reader, which have been supplemented by excursions to 

 woods and plantations in Cambridgeshire and the adjoining 

 counties. The lectures, which were given thrice a week, have 

 been attended not only by students taking the course for the 

 Diploma in Forestry, but also by students of Agriculture. The 

 attendance has been: 8 in the Easter term, 19 10; 19 in the 

 Michaelmas term, 1910; 11 in the Lent term, 1911; and 10 

 in the Easter term, 191 1. Mr Burdon gave a special course 

 of lectures and laboratory work on the Classification and 



