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the places where the best specimens are to be seen ; the proper 

 methods of its cultivation; the kind and value of the timber 

 produced ; and other particulars such as the effect of the tree on 

 the landscape, and the place names that have been derived from 

 it. All this is so deftly interwoven with anecdote and story, 

 that the reader is almost unaware that he is being led on to take 

 an interest in the great subject of forestry. The book contains 

 fifty-seven illustrations, eighteen of them coloured, which add 

 much to the charm of the work. The upmake of the book is all 

 that could be desired — the paper, printing, illustrations and 

 binding: being alike excellent. 



Physiography of iJie United States and Principles of Soils m 

 Relation to Forestry. By Professor Isaiah Bowman. 

 xxii + 759 pp. Price 21s. net. New York: J. Wiley and 

 Sons; London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1911. 



A knowledge of the physiographic features of a country is of 

 the utmost importance to all students of forestry. Topography, 

 drainage, soils and climate must be studied in order that the 

 forester may realise their intimate bearing on the whole question 

 of tree-growth and forest utilisation. As the author points out 

 In his preface, " It seems so clear that one cannot know forestry 

 without knowing under what physical conditions trees grow, 

 that one finds it impossible to see how even the least philosophical 

 view of the subject can exclude a knowledge of physiography. 

 It would seem that one should pay a great deal of attention to 

 lumbering as related to drainage and relief, to silviculture as 

 related to soils, climate and water supply, and in general that 

 one should emphasise ihe forester's dependence upon physical 

 conditions. This would appear to be so plain a doctrine as not 

 to require restatement here, were it not for the fact that some 

 students of forestry and even soii^e schools of forestry still pay 

 too little attention to the subject. If the forest is accepted 

 merely as a fact, and the chief concern is its immediate and 

 thoughtless exploitation, physiography may be indeed the fifth 

 wheel to the coach, although even so practical a view as the 

 lumberman's must include some knowledge of topography and 

 drainage if merely to put forest products on the market. But 

 forestry is more than lumbering, and if forests are to be conserved. 



