II.— The Forests of England; and the Management of 

 them in Bye-gone Times. Price 6s. 



Ancient forests, chases, parks, warrens, and woods, are 

 described ; details are given of destructive treatment to 

 which they have been subjected, and of legislation and 

 literature relating to them previous to the present 

 century. 



Extract prom Prep ace. — ' Contrast with this [the paucity of works 

 in English on Forest Science], the richness of Continental languages in 

 literature on such subjects. I have had sent to me lately Ofversight of 

 Svenska Skogsliteraturen, Bibliografisha Studieren of Axel Onattingius, a 

 list of many books and papers on Forest Science published in Sweden ; 

 I have also had sent to me a work by Don Jos6 Jordana y Morera, 

 Ingenero de Montes, under the title of Apunfes Bitliographico Forestale, 

 a catalogue rai!ionn4 of 1126 printed books, MSS., &c., in Spanish, on 

 subjects connected with Forest Science. 



' I am at present preparing for the press a report on measures adopted 

 in France, Germany, Hungary, and elsewhere, to arrest and utilise drift- 

 sand by planting them with grasses and trees ; and in Der Europaeische 

 Flug-sand uiid Seine Cultur, von Josef Wessely General Dornaenen- 

 Jnspecktor, und Forst-Academie-Direktor, published in Vienna in 1873, 

 I find a list of upwards of 100 books and papers on that one department 

 of the subject, of which 30, in Hungarian, Latin, and German, were 

 published in Hungary alone. 



' According to the statement of one gentleman, to whom application 

 was made by a representative of the Government at the Cape, for infor- 

 mation in regard to what suitable works on Forest Economy could be 

 procured from Germany, the works on Forst- Wissenchaft, Forest Science, 

 and Forst- WirtAchaft, Forest Economy, in the German language may be 

 reckoned by cartloads. From what I know of the abundance of works 

 in German, on subjects connected with Forestry, I am not surprised 

 that such a report should have been given. And with the works in 

 German may be reckoned the works in French. 



' In Hermann Schmidt's Fach Katalogue, published in Prague last 

 year (1876), there were given the titles, &o. , of German works in Forst und 

 Jagd-Literatm; published from 1870 to 1875 inclusive, to the 31st of 

 • October of the latter year, amounting in all to 650, exclusive of others 

 given in an appendix, containing a selection of the works published 

 prior to 1870. They are classified thus :— General Forest Economy, 93 ; 

 Forest Botany, 60 ; Forest History and Statistics, 50 ; Forest Legislation 

 and Game Laws, 56 ; Forest Mathematics, 25 ; Forest Tables and 

 Measurements, &o., 148; Forest Technology, 6 ; Forest Zoology, 19; 

 Peat and Bog Treatment, U ; Forest Calendars, 6 ; Forest and Game 

 Periodicals, 27 ; Forest Union and Year Books, 13 ; Game, 91 ; Forest 

 and Game in. Bohemian, 44. In all, 652. Upwards of a hundred new 

 works had been published annually. Amongst the works mentioned is 

 a volume entitled Dk LUeratur der ktzten sieben Jahre (1862-1872) aus 



