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you grateful thanks for the gift, and no less for publishing a description 
of the forestal condition of our country. It is with sentiments of true 
gratitude I learn that you had previously taken part in a work so 
important to our country as the preparation of a new edition of the New 
Testament in Finnish. Your descriptions of our natural. scenery are 
most excellent and interesting. Personally I feel most interest in your 
accounts of Koomaree. I value it much. and not less so your concurrent 
final eonclusion in regard to the effects of the exercise of it in Finland.’ 
Translation of Statement by M, De La Gryre, in the Revue des 
Eaux et Férets of January 1884 :—‘ In anaddress delivered some weeks 
since at a banquet of exhibitors in the French section at Amsterdam, 
M. Herisson, Minister of Commerce, expressed an intention to publish 
a series of small books designed to make known to French merchants 
foreign lands in a commercial point of view. If the Minister of Commerce 
wishes to show to our merchants the resources possessed by Finland, he 
need not go far to seek information which may be useful to them, they 
will be found in a small volume which has just been published by Mr 
John Croumbie Brown. 
‘ Mr Brown is one of those English ministers, who, travelling over the 
world in all directions [some at their own cost], seeking to spread the 
Word of the Lord in the form of Bibles translated into all languages, 
know how to utilise the leisure left to them at times while prosecuting 
this mission. Some occupy themselves with physical science, others with 
archeology, some with philology, many with commerce ; Mr Brown has 
made a special study of sylviculture. He has already published on this 
subject many works, from amongst which we may cite these : Hydrology 
of South Africa ; The Forests of England ; The Schools of Forestry in 
Europe ; Réboisement in France; Pine Plantations on Sand Wastes in 
France. + 
‘His last book on Finland is the fruit of many journeys made in that 
country, which he visited for the first time in 1833, but whither he has 
returned frequently since that time. Mr Brown gives narratives of his 
voyages on the lakes which abound in Finland, and his excursions in the 
immense forests, the exploitation of which constitutes the principal 
industry of the country. The School of Forestry at Evois has furnished 
to him much precise information in regard to the organisation of the 
service, and the legislation and the statistics of forests, which, added 
to what he had procured by his own observation, has enabled him to 
make a very complete study of this country, poetically designated The 
Land of a Thousand Lakes, and which might also justly be called The 
Kingdom of the Forest, for there this reigns sovereign.’ 
V.—Forest Lands and Forestry of Northern Russia. 
Price 6s 6d. 
Details are given of a trip from St. Petersburg to 
the forests around Petrozavodsk on Lake Onega, in 
the government of Olonetz; a description of the forests 
