that from the earliest times Forest Laws were Game 

 Laws, and that forest economy was for ages subordinated 

 to the chase; ancient terms and usages pertaining to 

 forests are explained ; progressive legislation leading to 

 better conservation and exploitation of forest woodland is 

 traced; and information is supplied in regard to earlier 

 literature of English forestry. 



In the second volume of the series, which is ready for 

 publication, it will be shown how changes in the woods and 

 forests of England resulted from the demand made for 

 wood for the British Navy in the beginning of the present 

 century; gross abuses of management then discovered 

 will be detailed ; administrative changes then and sub- 

 sequently introduced will be noticed ; details will be given 

 of the recent history and present condition of English 

 ' woods and forests, and of sylvicultural operations latterly 

 carried on at the expense of Government and by private 

 enterprise ; the alleged meteorological effects of woods 

 will be noticed ; and some account will be given of the 

 forestal literature of England of the present century. 



The publication of this volume has been deferred, only 

 because it would entail an expenditure exceeding the 

 amount which had been appropriated to the undertaking. 



In the volume entitled The French Forest Ordinnance of 

 1669, &c., which will be published shortly, is given a 

 translation of this famous Ordinnance, which has exercised 

 a deeper, more extended, and more prolonged influence 

 on the Forest Economy of Europe than has any other 

 work known to me ; but so far as is known to me, it has 

 never been published in its entirety in the English lan- 

 guage. As introductory to it are given notices of the 

 treatment of forests in France in prehistoric times ; of 

 the incursion of the Normans, and changes introduced by 

 them ; of the administration of the forests of France in 

 the first half of the seventeenth century, and the abuses 

 and devastation of forests which followed ; of the method 

 of exploitation then practised, Jardinage ; of La Methode, 

 & tire et aire, which was then introduced ; of La Methode 



