PEEFACE. 



The present book, with Dr. Schlich's permissiou, forms 

 Volume V. of the Manual of Forestry. It is an English transla- 

 tion of the volume on Forstbenutzung* by Dr. Karl Gayer, 

 Professor of Forestry at the University of Munich, the first 

 edition of which was published in 1863, and the eighth and 

 last edition in 1894. Dr. Gayer's book is the recognised 

 standard German work on the subject of Forest Utilization ; 

 although it may appear somewhat detailed for the present 

 condition of British Forestry, yet it is fitting to complete the 

 Manual of Forestry by giving a full account of the economic 

 methods of working forests as they are practised in Continental 

 Europe. 



I have added considerably to the original work by notes and 

 illustrations from my own and other experience in Britain, 

 France, and India ; the number of plates in the original work 

 (297) has also been increased to 343 in the translation. 



Monsieur L. Boppe, the Director of the French National 

 Forest School at Nancy (where I received my first instruction in 

 Forestry), has kindly allowed me the use of many of the plates 

 in his Technologie Forestiere,! which have been duly 

 acknowledged in the text, wherever they occur. Chapter VIII. 

 of Part III., which deals with resin-tapping, is mainly taken from 

 Mr. Boppe's book. 



* Die Forstbenutzung, von Br. Karl Gayer, eighth edition, Berlin. Published 

 by Paul Parey, 10, Hedemannstrasse. 1S94. 



t A considerably enlarged edition of a work by H. Nanquette, Honorary 

 Director of the Nancy Forest School, Paris, 1887, Berger-Levrault et Cie., 5, Rue 

 des Beaux Arts. 



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