500 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 



collection of notes yet issued on this subject. It should prove of 

 greatest use to Forest Officers, and to all others interested in the 

 forests and afforestation. 



Much useful information has been obtained from the annual 

 Reports on the administration of the Forest Department from the 

 years 1906 to 1913, more especially from that of 1906, which practi- 

 cally summarized the results of the Department's work up to that 

 date. Data on Togo are contained in the report of the afforestation 

 of Togo with teak and other African timber trees. This was the 

 result of a long tour in that country made by the author in 1911. 

 From Sierra Leone much valuable knowledge was acquired as a 

 result of a five months' tour made in 1908-9, and this was embodied 

 in a report which appeared in 1909. Very useful information is 

 contained in the reports by the Conservator of Forests there, which 

 have appeared since. A most extensive account of the forest trees 

 and plants, including the Oil Palm, is given in Les Vegetaux utiles 

 de VAfrique tropicale frangaise, by M. Chevalier, Parts I and II, 

 1909, 1910 (A. Challamel), chiefly in connection with the Ivory Coast. 



In the Notizblatt of the Berlin Botanical Station are some useful 

 notes on Die Nutz Holzer der Kamerun, 1909. Also in the pamphlets 

 Die Nutz Holzer Togos, Parts I and II. In this manner it is possible 

 to make a comparative study of the timber trees found in the 

 different parts of West Africa. The addition of the native names 

 in most cases is also very valuable. 



