GREAT BRITAIN AND HER COLONIES. 



It is a remarkable fact that the nation which can 

 boast of the most extensive forest department in one 

 of her colonies, has at home not yet been able to come 

 to an intelligent conception even, not to speak of 

 application, of proper forest policy or forest economy. 



One of the English authorities on the subject writes 

 still in 1900: "With so much land of poor quality 

 lying uncultivated in many parts of the British Isles, 

 the apathy shown towards forestry in Britain is one of 

 the things that it is impossible to understand." 



If we should venture to seek for an explanation, we 

 would j&nd it in geographical and physical conditions, 

 but still more in personal and political characteristics, 

 historically developed, such as also in the United. 

 States make progress of forestry slower than it would 

 otherwise be. 



Due to her insular position with which in part the 

 development of her naval supremacy is connected, 



Historical Inquiries concerning Forests and Forest Laws, by Percival 

 Lewis, i8ii, gives a full account of the practices in the old ban forests. 



English Forests and Forest Trees, 1853, anonymous, gives an interesting 

 account of the old 'forests' and their history. 



Our Forests and Woodlands, by John NisbeT, 1900, has a chapter on the 

 historical development of forest laws. 



Wm. ScHLicH, Manual of Forestry, vol. I, 3d ed., 1906, brings in convenient 

 form an account of conditions in various parts of the British Empire. 



ScHWAPPACH, Forstliche Zustdnde in England. Zeitschrift fiir Forst und 

 Jagdwesen, 1903, is an account of forest conditions from the pen of a practical 

 observer. 



B. RiBBENTROP, Forestry in India, 1900. Alio various reports of the forest 

 departments of the various British Colonies. 



