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IV.~Finland: its Forests and Forest Management. 
Price 6s 6d. 
In this volume is supplied information in regard to 
the lakes and rivers of Finland, known as The Land of a 
Thousand Lakes, and as The Last-born Daughter of the 
Sea ; in regard to its physical geography, including notices 
of the contour of the country, its geological formations 
and indications of glacial action, its flora, fauna, and 
climate; and in regard to its forest economy, embracing a 
discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of 
Svedjande, the Sartage of France, and the Koomaree of 
India; and details of the development of Modern Forest 
Economy in Finland, with notices of its School of Fores- 
try, of its forests and forest trees, of the disposal of its 
forest products, and of its legislation and literature in 
forestry are given. 
Extract From PRreFace.—‘I happened to spend the summer of 1879 
in St. Petersburg, ministering in the British and American Chapel in 
that city, while the pastor sought relaxation for a few months at home. 
I was for years the minister of the congregation worshipping there, and 
I had subsequently repeatedly spent the summer among them in similar 
circumstances, I was at the time studying the Forestry of Europe; 
and I availed myself of opportunities afforded by my journey thither 
through Norway, Sweden, and Finland, by my stay in Russia, and by 
my return through Germany and France, to collect information bearing 
upon the enquiries in which I was engaged. On my return to Scotland 
I contributed to the Journal of Forestry a series of papers which were 
afterwards reprinted under the title Glances at the Forests of Northern 
Hurope. In-the preface to this pamphlet I stated that in Denmark 
may be studied the remains of forests in pre-historic times ; in Norway, 
luxuriant forests managed by each proprietor as seemeth good in his own 
eyes; in Sweden, sustained systematic endeavours to regulate the 
management of forests in accordance with the latest deliverances of 
modern science; in Finland, Sartage disappearing before the most 
advanced forest economy of the day; and in Russia, Jardinage in the 
north, merging into more scientific management in Central Russia, and 
Réboisement in the south. This volume is a study of information which 
I then collected, together with information which I previously possessed, 
or have subsequently obtained, in regard to the Forests and Forestry of 
Finland. " 
Translation of Extracts from Letters from Dr A. BLomavisr, Director 
of the Finnish National School of Forestry at Evois :—‘On my return 
from Salmos three weeks ago I had the great pleasure to receive your 
volume on the Forests and Forest Management in Finland. I return 
