INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY EXHIBITION. 



WOEKS ON FOREST SCIENCE. 



By the rev. J. C. BROWN, LL.D. 







Edinbuegh : OLIVER & BOYD. 



London : SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., and W. RIDER & SON. 



Montreal: DAWSON, BROTHERS. 



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I.— Introduction to the Study of Modern Forest 

 Economy. Price 5s. 



In this there are brought under con.sideration the exten- 

 sive destruction of forests which has taken place in Europe 

 and elsewhere, with notices of disastrous consequences 

 which have followed — diminished supply of timber and 

 firewood, droughts, floods, landslips, and sand-drifts — and 

 notices of the appliances of Modern Forest Science success- 

 fully to counteract these evils by conservation, planting, and 

 improved exploitation, under scientific administration and 

 management. 



Extract trom Preface. — ' At a meeting held on the 28th of March 

 last year (1883), presided over by the Marquis of Lothian, while the 

 assemblage was representative of all interests — scientific, practical, and 

 professional — it was resolved : — "That it is expedient in the interests 

 of forestry, and to promote a movement for the establishment of a 

 National School of Forestry in Scotland, as well as with a view of 

 furthering and stimulating a greater improvement in the scientific 

 management of woods in Scotland and the sister countries which has 

 manifested itself during recent years, that there should be held in Edin- 

 burgh, during 1884, and at such season of the year as may be arranged, 

 an International Exhibition of forest products and other objects of 

 interest connected with forestry." It was then moved, seconded, Mid 

 agreed s — "That this meeting pledges itself to give its hearty co-opera- 

 tion and patronage to the promotion of an International Forestry Exhibi- 

 tion in Edinburgh in 1884 ; and those present resolve to give their beat 

 efforts and endeavours to render the Exhibition a success, and of such 

 importance and general interest as to make it worthy of the name of 

 International." 



' It is in accordance with this resolution , and in discharge of obligations 

 which it imposed, that this volume has been prepared.' 



