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INDEX. 



Lake region, U.S., pine supply in, 

 350, 478-479- 



Land, as a resource, lo-ii. 



Land-owners, lumbering methods 

 of, 342, 345-346. 



Lapland, forest conditions in, 299. 



Latitude, relation of, to species, 

 141-142. 



Law, property, 4, 20; forest, in 

 Italy, 58-59, 296-297; in Scot- 

 land, 83 «.; iniheU.S., (federal) 

 247-248, 378-379, 401-411, (sepa- 

 rate states) 246-247, 369-371, 

 377-378,384-399; in France, 276- 

 277; in India, 288; in Russia, 

 291-293; in Roumania, 294; in 

 Austria-Hungary, 295; in Swit- 

 zerland, 297 ; in Sweden, 299 ; in 

 Germany, 300-305, 312-323; in 

 Japan, 330; fire, 259-263, 398- 



399- 

 Legislation, forest. See Law. 

 Liburnau, Dr. L., 443. 

 Light, importance of, 54, 147-158, 



179-183. 

 Lightning, fires caused by, 189- 



190 n. 

 Literature, forestry, 316, 37^-37^, 



488-489. 

 Litter, 72-73, 120, 451-452; burning 



of, 188, 444. 

 Loans, state, 268-269. 

 Lockwood's Paper Trade Journal, 



quoted, 421-422. 

 Locomotives, fires caused by, 189- 



190 n. 

 Logging, expense of, 225. 

 Lumberman, methods of, 44-46, 53, 



167-169, 173, 195-196, 199- 

 Luneburg Heath, 268. 



McGee, J W, quoted, 12. 

 McRae bill, 403-405. 

 Maine, forest legislation in, 377, 384. 

 Malaria, effect of forests on, 77-79, 

 447- 



Malthus, 6. 



Manufactures, use of wood in, 33, 



426-429. 

 Maple sugar, 29-30. 

 Mark system, 91-92, 301-306, 310. 

 Marseilles, agricultural society, 



quoted, 61. 

 Marsh, G. P., quoted, 7, 376. 

 Massachusetts, forest conditions in, 



42, 178 ; forest legislation in, 



385-386. 

 Massachusetts Society for the Pro- 

 motion of Agriculture, 370. 

 " Master schools," in Germany, 237 ; 



at Biltmore, 238, 399. 

 Mathematics in forestry, 65, 102- 



103, 152-153. 

 Mensuration, forest, 103, 152-153. 

 Mercantile theory, 257. 

 Mesopotamia, deforestation of, 59. 

 Metal, substitution of, for wood, 



23«., 29; production of, in the 



U.S., 32. 

 Meteorology, relation of, to for- 

 estry, 63-71, loi, 432-444. 

 Michigan, wood production in, 372 ; 



forest legislation in, 392. 

 Microbes in forests, 78, 447. 

 Middle Ages, forests in the, 81-84, 



300-305. 

 Mill, J. S., 6. 

 Mills, saw, waste in, 41, 419-420; 



influence of, on forestry, 345 ; in 



the U.S., 372-373. 475-477- 

 Mines, exhaustion of, 8, 11; state 



control of, 16; timber used in, 



23 ; revenue from, in the U.S., 32. 

 Minnesota, forestry association in, 



242; forest legislation in, 242, 



392-393. 398- 

 Mirabeau, Marquis of, 60. 

 Mississippi, effects of deforestation 



upon, 12. 

 Mohr, C, quoted, 355, 485. 

 Moisture, relation of, to forests, 55, 



69-71, 142, 183, 437-447- 



