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or business of the forest, in such a manner that the object of the 

 management is accompHshed, as fully as possible.'' 



A complete list of the literature of Forest Regulation follows, 

 enumerating 229 works : 



Book I. General Basis, ("Allgemeine Grundlagen"). 



Note. — The author does not bother about our reasons for doing 

 this, or preface with description of forest conditions calling for 

 regulation. All this was done centuries ago. 



1. The Fundamental Conditions of the Normal Forest, 

 ("Grundbedingungen d. Normahvaldes"). 



2. The Growth of Timber, ("Aus der Zuwachslehre"). In- 

 cludes Volume and Quality growth, and growth in Market Price, 

 the Growth in per cent, and Growth per cent as measure of ripeness 

 of stand. ("Weiserprozent.") 



3. Rotation, ("Umtrieb"). Includes discussion of rotation for 

 largest interest on capitals invested. 



4. Normal Age Classes, ('Das Normale Alters Klassen ver- 

 haltniss"). Their relation to the yearly cut; area occupied by each 

 age class, and the distribution of the age classes in the forest. 



5. Normal Growing Stock, ("Normal vorrath"). Importance 

 and Volume, as well as Cost and Expectation \'alue of G. Goes 

 into a great deal of forest valuation. 



6. Relation between Growing Stock and Growth in the Normal 

 Forest. 



7. Normal Cut, ("Normaler Hiebssatz"). In area, volume and 

 value; its relation to Growth and Growing Stock in Normal Forest. 



8. Working Sections, ("P.etriebs Klassen" or "Wirtschafts 

 Klassen"). 



9. The Actual Forest. 



Note. — The author deals only with the ordinary German forest, 

 and not with wild woods. 



Book II. Application, ("Anwendungen"). 



A. Pr];i,imin.«iRY Work (Ftei-d Work), ("\'orarbeiten"). 



1. Survey of Land and Topography. 



2. Inventory of Forest, estimating and measuring the timber ; 

 study of growth; description of land, soil or site, ("Forstabschat- 

 zung"). 



