WEST-AMERICAN 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



The undersigned desires to announce to the public 

 that, encouraged by the encomiums passed upon 

 recent forestry articles, and the continued requests 

 for copies (over six hundred copies already having 

 been sent out by mail) he is preparing a comprehen- 

 sive work upon the West- American Cone-bearers, 

 north of Mexico and west of the Rocky Mountains. 



The volume will mainly consist of articles contrib- 

 uted to the press from time to time during the last 

 twenty years, particularly in late reports of the Cal- 

 ifornia Board of Forestry all rewritten, corrected, 

 and also augmented by new material obtained by 

 more recent explorations and by correspondence with 

 the principal botanists of the coast. 



The attempt is made to give, in attractive form, 

 scientific and popular descriptions (in separate para- 

 graphs) of this most important family of trees, that 

 in the West comprise some sixty species with twenty- 

 five marked varieties, and compose nine-tenths of our 

 Pacific forest at once the largest, the most varied and 

 valuable in all the earth. 



The volume will contain about three hundred and 

 fifty pages and will be amply illustrated by copies of 

 photographs of characteristic trees, taken in the forest, 

 or of mounted specimens in the Lemmon Herbarium, 

 or copies of paintings by Mrs. Lemmon, sketched 

 from nature. 



It is designed to issue the first edition in two forms: 

 one the ordinary form for the library, the other with 

 flexible covers for the gripsack of the traveler. 



