you grateful thanks for the gift, and no leas 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 conclusion in regard to the effects of the exercise of it in Finland.' 



Translation of Statement by M. Db La Grye, in the Revue des 

 Eaux et Fdrets of January 1884 : — 'In an address 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 ; BSboisement 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 



