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owners cannot afford the services of a highly trained forester. 

 They themselves understand enough forestry to be able to manage 

 their lands intelligently with the help of one or more forest 

 guards or rangers. It appears to be the purpose of Recknagel 

 and Bentle}' to assist in building up this type of owner in the 

 United States. If this can be done the gain to the country will 

 be incalculable. 



The book gives briefly but clearly the essentials of the four 

 branches of Forest Management, namely: (i) forest mensuration 

 or the measurement of the tree crop including growth, (2) forest 

 organization or regulation of the cut so as to secure regular 

 periodic returns from the forest, (3) forest finance, a complex 

 but important phase of the subject, and (4) forest administration 

 or the organization and personnel of the force necessary to pro- 

 tect and control the forest. 



It would be useless to pretend that such a subject as forest 

 management can be readily understood and applied by the 

 layman. It will require time and study, and often at the outset 

 the assistance of expert advice. But this book will be of great 

 assistance, and make possible to the forest owner an under- 

 standing of how to go about the matter, and of what returns 

 he may expect on his outlay. 



The book has still another field of usefulness. It is sufficiently 

 detailed and accurate to be of much value to the professional 

 forester as a convenient handbook of reference in which he may 

 easily find certain formulae and tables which he could not possibly 

 keep in his head. On the whole therefore the book is a valuable 

 and welcome addition to forestry literature. 



Barrixgtox Moore 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 November ii, 1919 



The meeting was held at the American Museum of Natural 

 History at 8.15 P.M., President Richards presiding. There 

 were fifty persons present. 



