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though well acquainted with foreign lan- 
guages and a writer of good English (as 
proved by his contributions to the Zoolog- 
ical Record from 1872 to 1878, and by his ad- 
mirable article on Steenstrup in Natural 
Science for September (1897), he preferred, 
as a rule, to publish in his native language. 
This, while a benefit to the Danish school, 
has not prevented foreign zoologists from 
recognizing the value of Lutken’s work; 
abstracts have appeared in many English 
and ether journals, and honors have been 
showered on the author. His death causes 
a vacaney in such societies as the Royal, 
Linnean and Zoological Societies of Lon- 
don, the Imperial Academy of Sciences of 
St. Petersburg, the Imperial and Royal 
Zoological and Botanical Society of Vienna, 
the Boston Society of Natural History and 
avast number for whose names we have 
no space. 
Lutken was a tall and handsome man of 
the fair Danish type, with a keen blue eye. 
His upright and somewhat stiff demeanor 
might be a reminiscence of his military 
service. But his reserve did not prevent 
one from seeing the thorough worth and 
single-mindedness of his life and thought, 
nor did it check his really kind disposition, 
as experienced not only by his family and 
closer friends, but by every foreign visitor 
to him in his Museum at Copenhagen, and 
every correspondent who sought his aid. 
12, AAs 1B. 
SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 
PROGRESS OF FOREST MANAGEMENT IN THE 
ADIRONDACKS. * 
THE recent report of the Director of the New 
York State College of Forestry and the College 
Forest in the Adirondacks is a document of 
more than ordinary interest, dealing as it does 
with questions that are now engaging the at- 
tention of the legislatures of several States and 
* Third Annual Report of the Director of the New 
York State College of Forestry, Ithaca, N. Y., March, 
1901. 
SCLENCE. 
[N.S. Von. XIII. No. 327. 
to which much thought is being given by citi- 
zens who are interested in the public welfare. 
As shown by the report, the number of stu- 
dents has increased from four, the number 
three years ago, to twenty-five and, in addi- 
tion to these regular students, there are regis- 
tered twenty-nine from the Colleges of Archi- 
tecture, Civil Engineering and Agriculture. 
The five students who went out from the school 
last year have found satisfactory employment, 
three with the Forestry Division of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, one with a 
lumberman’s firm and one with the Forest, 
Fish and Game Commission of the State of New 
York, 
In addition to the work of the three profess- 
ors of forestry, many of the professors and in- 
structors in other Colleges of Cornell University 
have aided in giving instruction, and lectures 
on fish culture have been given by Dr. B. W. 
Evermann, of the United States Fish Commis- 
sion, and a short course in practical timber- 
estimating was given at Axton by Mr. C. P. 
Whitney, a well-known estimator, while courses 
on marketing the forest crop, as well as special 
courses in law and engineering, have been ar- 
ranged for. 
The plan of requiring practical work of the 
junior and senior classes in the College Forest 
has proved satisfactory and has become a per- 
manent arrangement. The work embraces in- 
spection of logging operations, timher estimat- 
ing and measuring, surveying and locating 
roads, nursery work and, planting, marking 
trees for cutting, practical work in the sugar 
orchard, and excursions to fishing grounds and 
hatchery. 
Aside from this, the distinctively educational 
work of the College, the problem of the man- 
’ agement, development and satisfactory utiliza- 
tion of the forest property — thirty thousand 
acres in the Adirondacks—with which the Col- 
lege is entrusted has ‘been fairly met. It in- 
volves securing a market for the wood, much of 
it already past maturity and rapidly deteriorat- 
ing, and the perpetual renewal of the forest by 
planting or natural regeneration, so as to pro- 
vide both for future cutting and improvement 
of the property. The widely different condi- 
tions under which European forestry is prac- 
