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position that it is practical, by a restrictive legislation, to 
compel private proprietors to preserve their woods., All 
the laws having this for their object which have been 
passed have had surprisingly little effect, and on this 
ground it is maintained that the first thing to be done 
with this view is what has been done to extend the forests 
belonging to the State in the southern parts of: the 
Grand Duchy. It is stated with approval, that the Govern- 
ment had, within a few years previous, made some con- 
siderable purchases of woods belonging to private parties, 
amounting in all to about 200,000 hectares, to form of 
them new Crown parks; and that this procedure was 
likely to be continued fur some time to come. ‘In this 
work the principle of free trade is defended as the most 
useful for forest economy in Finland; and it is asserted 
that the restrictions on a free exportation of forest pro- 
ducts, which were heard of on many sides, could only be 
injurious to sylviculture, 
8. Hine neue Methode den Holewuchs und die Standorts-vege- 
tation Bildlich Darzustellen: sechs Vegetations Bilder aus Nord- 
Einnland und Lappland, A new method of giving graphi- 
cally indications of the progress of forest vegetation. It 
isareprint in German of a paper published in the Journal 
entitled Idrag till Kaunedom om Finlands Natur och Folks, 
issued by the Finnish Academy of Science for the year 
1879. In four charts of different woodlands in a stretch 
of half an hectare are indicated, not only the locality and 
the magnitude of each tree, but in addition the herbaceous 
and arborescent vegetation giving its vegetable character 
to the ground. 
4, Om Froebildningens Periodicittet hos Tallen och Granen 
samt roerande Ekorrens Foerekommande 1 Finland, A. treatise 
on the periodicity of fructification in the Scots fir and the 
Norway spruce, and on the periodicity of the squirrel 
(Sciwrus vulgaris L.) in Finland. It is a reprint of a paper 
published in the journal entitled Meddelanden af Societas pro 
Flora e Fauna Fennica, 
Besides these, several valuable papers by Dr Blomqvist 
