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Finland, and Russia, by procuring official documents and reports 

 recommended to me by forest officials and Professors and Directors 

 of Schools of Forestry who had honoured me with their friendship 

 and correspondence. These documents have now been translated and 

 embodied in reports which may be published at any time should this 

 seem desirable. While this work was in progress these " Glances " 

 appeared in successive numbers of the Journal of Forestry, each of 

 them revealing the particular aspect of forestry presented for study by 

 the country to which they were devoted. In Denmark may be studied 

 the remains of forests of prehistoric times; in Norway, luxuriant 

 forests managed by each proprietor as seemeth good in his own eyes ; 

 in Sweden, sustained systematic endeavours to regulate the manage- 

 ment of forests in accordance with the latest deliverances of modern 

 science ; in Finland, Sartage disappearing before the most advanced 

 modem forest economy; and in Eussia, Jardinage in the north 

 merging into more scientific management in Central Eussia and 

 Eeboisement or sylviculture in the south. 



JOHN C. BEOWN. 



HADDINGTON, 

 April, 1879. 



