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tion, as already indicated. Some of the results of it will be given 

 below for comparison with Hall and Ingall's estimates.) 



The first table in the report gives for nearly every county 

 studied the total area, the wooded area, the total stand of timber, 

 and the area of each of three types of forest: namely, bottoms, 

 level uplands, and hills. Descriptions of each type follow, with 

 many local details. Tables 2-4 give the percentages of different 

 species of trees in bottoms, hills, and level uplands in the southern 

 counties, and tables 5 and 6 similar data for bottoms and uplands 

 in the three more northerly counties studied. (Even yet there 

 are very few other publications giving the percentage composition 

 of the forests for so large an area.) The species are not all 

 separated in the statistics, how^ever, many related ones of similar 

 economic properties and not easily distinguished in winter and 

 early spring (when most of the field w^ork for this report was done) 

 being lumped together, as in the case of the various black oaks, 

 white oaks, hickories and ashes. 



About three pages are then devoted to an account of the local 

 distribution of the more important trees throughout the state, 

 followed by a list of 129 species (including several large shrubs 

 and introduced species), with technical and common names, but 

 no indication of distribution or abundance. 



The second half of the report is taken up mainly with questions 

 of ownership and taxation of forest lands, utilization and manage- 

 ment of forests, growth statistics of several species, forest protec- 

 tion, and suggested legislation. It differs from many if not 

 most reports of similar size written by professional foresters in 

 containing a bibliography; but most of the citations give no 

 indication of the length of the papers cited (a very common 

 omission), and about 15 per cent of the titles are of manuscripts, 

 which few users of the report can ever hope to see. The illus- 

 trations are splendid, mostly full-page half-tone plates, and will 

 be a revelation to those who have crossed Illinois on the railroads 

 and seen little but settlements and vast level corn-fields. The one 

 of Pinus echinata on the hills of Union County is especially 

 noteworthy, being perhaps the only photograph ever published 

 of that species growing naturally in Illinois. 



