2 TEE FOEEST LANDS OF NORTHERN RUSSIA. 



vours to regulate the management of forests in accordance 

 with the latest deliverances of modern science ; in Finland, 

 Sartage disappearing before the most advanced forest 

 economy ; and in Russia, Jardinage in the north, merging 

 into more scientific management in Central Russia, and 

 reboisement in the south.' 



The following pages may be considered a study of infor- 

 mation I then collected, together with information which 

 I previously possessed, or have subsequently obtained, in 

 regard to the forestry of the Russian Governments of 

 Olonetz, Vologda, and Archangel, through some of the 

 forest lands of which I made a tour in the summer of 

 1882. 



