FORESTAL LITERATURE. 2&3 



lished repeated new and enlarged editions have appeared of 

 The Forester: a Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, 

 and General Management of Forest Trees, by Dr James 

 Brown, lately deceased, one of the fathers and founders of 

 the Society. 



This work of Dr James Brown constitutes a kind of 

 connecting link between the past and the present. It is 

 likely long to hold its place as an authority on the subjectsof 

 which it treats different from, but related to, other matters 

 brought forward in connection with the advanced forest 

 science of the day, but gracefully, and of right, taking its 

 place amongst these. And something similar may be said 

 of many other works, published in Great Britain both 

 before and since ; prominent amongst which are some of 

 the works of Louden. 



It may have been noticed that amongst the forestal 

 works published in Spain, within the last fifteen years, 

 are many prepared in accordance with the arrangement in 

 connection with the School, whereby professors and others 

 are commissioned to visit foreign lands, on special errands 

 relating to some one or more departments of research or 

 of practical operations pertaining to forestry ; and to report 

 the results, for consideration in connection with corres- 

 ponding researches or forestal operations carried on in 

 Spain, provision being made for their expenses being paid 

 by the State, and for the report being published at the 

 expense of the State, if this be recommended by the 

 Facultative Junta, and approved by the Minister of State 

 entrusted with the cognisance of the School. 



Some years ago, in the Scottish Arboricultural Society, 

 there was mooted by Mr Hutchieson of Carlo wrie, one of 

 the vice-presidents of the Society, the project of an 

 International Forestry Exhibition; and when the project 

 was carried into effect it was with a view to promote a 

 movement for the establishment of a National School of 

 Forestry in Scotland, as well as with a view of furthering 

 and stimulating a greater improvement in the scientific 



