WORKS ON FORESTRY, 



By the Rev. J. C. BROWN, LL.D. 



I. Hydrology of South Africa; or Details of the former 

 Hydrographic Condition of the Cape of Good Hope, and of Causes 

 of its present Aridity, with Suggestions of appropriate Remedies 

 for this Aridity. Price 10s. 



In this the desiccation of South Africa, from pre-Adamic times to the 

 present day, is traced by indications supplied by geological formations, 

 by the physical geography or the general contour of the country, and by 

 arborescent productions in the interior, with results confirmatory of the 

 opinion that the appropriate remedies are irrigation, arboriculture, and 

 an improved forest economy ; or the erection of dams to prevent the 

 escape of a portion of the rainfall to the sea the abandonment or restric- 

 tion of the burning of the herbage and bush in connection with pastoral 

 and agricultural operations the conservation and extension of existing 

 forests and the adoption of measures similar to the reboisement and 

 gazonnement carried out in France, with a view to prevent the formation 

 of torrents, and the destruction of property occasioned by them. 



II. Water Supply of South Africa, and Facilities for the 



Storage of it. Price 18s 6d. 



In this Volume are detailed meteorological observations on the humi- 

 dity of the air and the rainfall, on clouds, and winds, and thunder- 

 storms ; sources from which is derived the supply of moisture which is 

 at present available for agricultural operations in the Colony of the Cape 

 of Good Hope and regions beyond, embracing the atmosphere, the rain- 

 fall, rivers, fountains, subterranean streams and reservoirs, and the sea; 

 and the supply of water and facilities for the storage of it in each of the 

 divisions of the colony in Basutoland, in the Orange Eiver Free State, 

 in Griqualand West, in the Transvaal Territory, in Zululand, at Natal, 

 .and in the Transkei Territory. 



III. Forests and Moisture; or Effects of Forests on Humidity 



of Climate. Price 10s. 



In this are given details of phenomena of vegetation on which the 

 meteorological effects of forests affecting the humidity of climate depend 

 of the effects of forests on the humidity of the atmosphere, on the 

 humidity of the ground, on marshes, on the moisture of a wide expanse 

 of country, on the local rainfall, and on rivers and of the correspond- 

 ence between the distribution of the rainfall and of forests the measure 

 of correspondence between the distribution of the rainfall and that of 

 forests the distribution of the rainfall dependent on geographical posi- 

 tion, determined by the contour of a country the distribution of forests 

 affected by the distribution of the rainfall and the local effects of 

 forests on the distribution of the rainfall within the forest district. 



IV. The Forests of England ; and the Management of them 



in Byegone Times. Price 6s. 



Ancient forests, chases, parks, warrens, and woods are described ; 

 details are given of destructive treatment to which they have been sub- 

 jected, and of legislation and literature relating to them previous to the 

 present century. 



