ADVERTISEMENT. 



Bent to me a work by Don Josd Jordana y Morei?a, 

 Ingenero de Montes, under the title of ' Apuntes Biblio- 

 graphic Forestale,' a catalogue raisonne 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 und Seine Cultur, vori Josef Wessely General-Doma- 

 enen-InspecMor, und Forst-Academie-DireMor, published in 

 Vienna in 1873, 1 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 representation of the Govern- 

 ment at the Cape, for information in regard to what 

 suitable works on Forest Economy could be procured 

 from Germany, the works on Forst-Wissenschaft, Forest 

 Science, and Forst-Wirthschafi, 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 Eafalogue, published in 

 Prague last year (1876), there are given the titles, &c., of 

 German works in Forst und Jagd-Literatur, 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 



