INDEX. 



Lake region, U.S., pine supply in, 

 350, 478-479- 



Land, as a resource, 10-11. 



Land-owners, lumbering methods 

 of, 342, 345-346. 



Lapland, forest conditions in, 299. 



Latitude, relation of, to species, 

 141-142. 



Law, property, 4, 20; forest, in 

 Italy, 58-59, 296-297; in Scot- 

 land, 837*.; in the U.S., (federal) 

 247-248, 378-379, 401-411, (sepa- 

 rate states) 246-247, 369-371, 

 377-378 384-399; in France, 276- 

 277; in India, 288; in Russia, 

 291-293; in Roumania, 294; in 

 Austria-Hungary, 295; in Swit- 

 zerland, 297 ; in Sweden, 299 ; in 

 Germany, 300-305, 312-323; in 

 Japan, 330; fire, 259-263, 398- 



399- 



Legislation, forest. See Law. 

 Liburnau, Dr. L., 443. 

 Light, importance of, 54, 147-158, 



179-183. 

 Lightning, fires caused by, 189- 



190 w. 

 Literature, forestry, 316, 374-376, 



488-489. 

 Litter, 72-73, 120, 451-452; burning 



of, 188, 444. 

 Loans, state, 268-269. 

 Lockwood's Paper Trade Journal, 



quoted, 421-422. 

 Locomotives, fires caused by, 189- 



190 . 



Logging, expense of, 225. 

 Lumberman, methods of, 44-46, 53, 



167-169, 173, 195-196, 199. 

 Luneburg Heath, 268. 



McGEE, J W, quoted, 12. 

 McRae bill, 403-405. 

 Maine, forest legislation in, 377, 384. 

 Malaria, effect of forests on, 77-79, 

 447- 



Malthus, 6. 



Manufactures, use of wood in, 33, 

 426-429. 



Maple sugar, 29-30. 



Mark system, 91-92, 301-306, 310. 



Marseilles, agricultural society, 

 quoted, 61. 



Marsh, G. P., quoted, 7, 376. 



Massachusetts, forest conditions in, 

 42, 178 ; forest legislation in, 

 385-386. 



Massachusetts Society for the Pro- 

 motion of Agriculture, 370. 



" Master schools," in Germany, 237 ; 

 at Biltmore, 238, 399. 



Mathematics in forestry, 65, 102- 

 103, 152-153. 



Mensuration, forest, 103, 152-153. 



Mercantile theory, 257. 



Mesopotamia, deforestation of, 59. 



Metal, substitution of, for wood, 

 23., 29; production of, in the 

 U.S., 32. 



Meteorology, relation of, to for- 

 estry, 63-71, 101, 432-444. 



Michigan, wood production in, 372 ; 

 forest legislation in, 392. 



Microbes in forests, 78, 447. 



Middle Ages, forests in the, 81-84, 

 300-305. 



Mill, J. S., 6. 



Mills, saw, waste in, 41, 419-420; 

 influence of, on forestry, 345 ; in 

 the U.S., 372-373. 475-477- 



Mines, exhaustion of, 8, n; state 

 control of, 16; timber used in, 

 23 ; revenue from, in the U.S., 32. 



Minnesota, forestry association in, 

 242; forest legislation in, 242, 



392-393. 398. 



Mirabeau, Marquis of, 60. 

 Mississippi, effects of deforestation 



upon, 12. 



Mohr, C., quoted, 355, 485. 

 Moisture, relation of, to forests, 55, 



69-71, 142, 183, 437-447. 



