PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. 



THE present book, with Dr. Schlich's permission, forms 

 Volume V. of the Manual of Forestry. It is an English 

 translation of the volume on FORSTBENUTZUNG * hy Dr. Karl 

 Gayer, Professor of Forestry at the University of Munich, the 

 first edition of which was published in 1863, and the eighth 

 and last edition in 1894. Dr. Gayer's book is the recognised 

 standard German work on the subject of Forest Utilization ; 

 although it may appear somewhat detailed for the present 

 condition of British Forestry, yet it is fitting to complete the 

 Manual of Forestry by giving a full account of the economic 

 methods of working forests as they are practised in Continental 

 Europe. 



I have added considerably to the original work by notes and 

 illustrations from my own and other experience in Britain, 

 France, and India ; the number of plates in the original work 

 (297) has also been increased to 343 in the translation. 



Monsieur L. Boppe, the Director of the French National 

 Forest School at Nancy (where I received my first instruction 

 in Forestry), has kindly allowed me the use of many of the 

 plates in his TECHNOLOGIE FORESTIERE,! which have been 

 acknowledged duly in the text, wherever they occur. Chapter 

 VIII. of Part III., which deals with resin-tapping, is taken 

 mainly from Mr. Boppe 's book. 



The last chapter of my book, dealing with the extraction of 

 oil of turpentine and rosin, from crude resin, is taken chiefly 



* ' Die Forstbenutzuug." von Dr. Karl Gayer, eighth edition, Berlin. Pub- 

 lished by Paul Parey, 1<), Hedemannstrasse. 1M1. 



f A considerably enlarged edition of a work by H. Nanquette, Honorary 

 Director of the Nancy Forest School, Paris, 1887, Berger-Levrault et Cie., 

 ">, Hue des Beaux Arts. 



