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position that it is practical, by a restrictive legislation, to 

 compel private proprietors to preserve their woods. All 

 the laws having this for their object which have been 

 passed have had surprisingly little effect, and on this 

 ground it is maintained that the first thing to be done 

 with this view is what has been done to extend the forests 

 belonging to the State in the southern parts of the 

 Grand Duchy. It is stated with approval, that the Govern- 

 ment had, within a few years previous, made some con- 

 siderable purchases of woods belonging to private parties, 

 amounting in all to about 200,000 hectares, to form of 

 them new Crown parks ; and that this procedure was 

 likely to be continued for some time to come. In this 

 work the principle of free trade is defended as the most 

 useful for forest economy in Finland ; and it is asserted 

 that the restrictions on a free exportation of forest pro- 

 ducts, which were heard of on many sides, could only be 

 injurious to sylviculture. 



3. Eine neue Methode den Holzwuchs und die Standorts-vege- 

 tation Bildlich Darzustellen : seeks Vegetations Bilder aus Nord- 

 Finnland und Lappland. A new method of giving graphi- 

 cally indications of the progress of forest vegetation. It 

 is a reprint in German of a paper published in the Journal 

 entitled Idrag till Kaunedom oin Finlands Natur och Folks, 

 issued by the Finnish Academy of Science for the year 

 1879. In four charts of different woodlands in a stretch 

 of half an hectare are indicated, not only the locality and 

 the magnitude of each tree, but in addition the herbaceous 

 and arborescent vegetation giving its vegetable character 

 to the ground. 



4. 0m Froebildningens Periodiciltet hos Tallen och Granen 

 samt roerande Ekorrens Foerekommande i Finland. A treatise 

 on the periodicity of fructification in the Scots fir and the 

 Norway spruce, and on the periodicity of the squirrel 

 (Sciurus vulgaris L.) in Finland. It is a reprint of a paper 

 published in the journal entitled Meddelanden of Societas pro 

 Flora et Fauna Fennica. 



Besides these, several valuable papers by Dr Blomqvist 



