230 TRANSACTION'S OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Bibliography of Forestry. 



The last issued annual report of the Co7icilium Bibliograph- 

 icum (Zurich, Dec. 1910) intimates that a sufficient number of 

 subscribers have been secured for the Bibliography planned by 

 the International Forestry Congress, whose decisions have, 

 however, to receive the formal assent of the various governments 

 interested. 



The circular issued by the International Committee for the 

 publication of a bibliography of forestry explains that their 

 purpose is to provide a prompt and complete digest, absolutely 

 trustworthy and easy to consult, comprising the forestry 

 literature of all countries. This will be in tlie form of a card 

 catalogue, arranged in accordance with the system long and 

 successfully in use for zoology, anatomy and other subjects. 

 The arrangement of the catalogue, which is intended to 

 include all publications subsequent to 191 1, would be as 

 follows : — 



For every memoir, whether published in a journal or as a 

 separate work, a card would be prepared. On this card would 

 stand the title of the memoir and, where necessary, a brief 

 resume of the contents, the name of the journal, with full 

 bibliographical references, and, in the case of separate works, 

 the name of the publisher. The science of forestry will be 

 sjjlit up into a number of convenient headings, which will be 

 numbered so as to permit of the easy intercalation of cards. 

 Thus, if a student wishes to know what has been published in 

 regard to, say, "Thinnings," he has only to ascertain the 

 appropriate heading from the scheme of classilication and then 

 turn to the corresponding division of the subject catalogue, 

 where he will fmd references to all papers collected at this one 

 point, even though the individual papers may have been pub- 

 lished at very different dates. It is also the intention of the 

 International Committee to issue a separate catalogue, in book 

 form, for all publications prior to 191 1, running back probably to 

 1750. For further information ■f.ftii AiinotatioiKs Concilii Bihlio- 

 graphici (vol. vi., 1910, \)\). 1-3, Zurich, 1910); or apply to 

 Dr Herbert H. I'ield, Director of the Concilium Bibliographicum, 

 Zurich, Switzerland. 



Hugh Boyu Watt. 



