(library, 



THE 



CANADIAN RECORD 



OF SCIENCE. 



vol. ii. apeil, 1886. no. 2. 



The Forests of Canada. 1 



By Robert Bell. 



The writer, who has had extensive opportunities during 

 the last thirty years of becoming personally acquainted with 

 the forests of the Dominion east of the Rocky Mountains, 

 endeavoured to give an account of their extent, general 

 characters, peculiarities, value, means of preservation, etc. 

 Viewing the forests of the continent as a whole, only the 

 northern portions come within the Dominion, a large part 

 of which lies beyond the limit of trees of any kind. The 

 central and eastern forest region of Canada and the United 

 States presents the greatest variety of species. In the north, 



1 The above paper in extenso was contributed by the author to the 

 Montreal meeting of the British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, in 1884, and was accidentally omitted from the volume 

 of "Canadian Economics." Our abstract is somewhat fuller than 

 that given by the authorized Report of the Association. We may 

 mention that, at the late International Forestry Exhibition in 

 Edinburgh, Dr. Bell was awarded a diploma for a large map show- 

 ing the northern limits of some thirty species of timber trees. 



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