PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 



THE first edition of this book (1,500 copies), which was 

 published in 1896, has been sold, and it has become my duty 

 to prepare a second edition. Schlich's Manual of Forestry is 

 intended to give a clear picture of forestry, as practised in 

 those countries where the industry has been brought to the 

 greatest perfection, and that purpose has been followed in the 

 instruction given by us to the forest students who go to India 

 or the Colonies, or who remain in this country. 



No writer on Forest Utilization fulfils this purpose, as do 

 Gayer and his eminent co-author and successor, Dr. Heinrich 

 Mayr. The latter has travelled through most of the forests 

 in Europe, America, Japan and India, and has used the store 

 of knowledge he has gained, in rearranging Gayer 's book, 

 which is brought up completely to date in this, its ninth 

 edition. The author's preface to this edition, that follows, 

 shows, to some extent, how greatly this old classic work has 

 been improved. An important book, " Traite d'exploitation 

 commerciale des bois," in two large volumes, written by 

 Alphonse Mathey, published in 1900 and 1908, gives the 

 French views of Forest Utilization, and contains much 

 original matter dealing with French indigenous and colonial 

 forest produce. As the French have never had separate 

 instruction in Forest Protection, a subject dealt with in 

 Volume IV. of this Manual, the diseases in trees due to fungi, 

 are therein described in detail that is not required here. 

 Mathey's second volume is a compendium of the usages of 

 the French timber trade, and deals also with French minor 

 produce in a comprehensive manner. This work, however, 

 follows Gayer in general matters, and reproduces many of 

 Gayer's plates. 



