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istration might check the indiscriminate destruction 

 of the woods, without, perhaps, lessening the rate of 

 the present yield ; in what manner numerous latent 

 industrial resources of our ranges might be speedily 

 and successfully developed, and a higher revenue thus 

 be raised by the state ; in what manner this increased 

 income could be best employed, to maintain or enrich 

 the forests, or to raise woods where naturally none 

 existed ; and by what new means prosperous occupa- 

 tion might be afforded to many a happy family in the 

 still and salubrious sylvan recesses of this country. 



And here I would at once remark, that for any ad* 

 ministrative organization to watch over our forest 

 interests we must follow an independent path of our 

 own in this young country, because the systems of 

 forest management adopted with so much advantage 

 in Germany, Prance, and Scandinavia are here appli- 

 cable only to a very limited extent. This must be at 

 once apparent to any one who will reflect on the dis- 

 parity which exists between our clime, our native 

 tree vegetation, our present ratio of population and 

 value of labor, as compared with similar conditions of 

 the older and far more densely inhabited countries of 

 middle and northern Europe, not to speak of the very 

 much wider scope which, for the selection of trees for 

 our future use, the isothermal zone of Victoria allows. 

 On the latter subject our Acclimatization Society has 

 recently published the views which I entertain in ref- 

 erence to the many various trees eligible for the geo- 

 graphic latitudes of a colony like ours.* Next I pro- 

 ceed to give, though very briefly, only an outline of 

 the special system of administration, which I would 



* Appendix to the Annual Report of the Vict. Acclimat. Soo„ 1870-71. 



