INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY EXHIBITION. 



WORKS ON FOREST SCIENCE. 



By the REV. J. C. BROWN, LL.D. 



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Edinburgh : OLIVER & BOYD. 



London: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., and W. RIDER & SON. 



Montreal: DAWSON. BROTHERS. 



I.— Introduction to the Study of Modern Forest 

 Economy. Price 5s. 



In this there are brought under consideration the exten- 

 sive destruction of forests which has taken place in Europe 

 and elsewhere, with notices of disastrous consequences 

 which have followed — diminished supply of timber and 

 firewood, droughts, floods, landslips, and sand-drifts — and 

 notices of the appliances of Modern Forest Science success- 

 fully to counteract these evils by conservation, planting, and 

 improved exploitation, under scientific administration and 

 management. 



Extract from Preface. — ' At a meeting held on the 28th of March 

 last year (1883), presided over by the Marquis of Lothian, while the 

 assemblage was representative of all interests — scientific, practical, and 

 professional — it was resolved : — "That it is expedient in the interests 

 of forestry, and to promote a movement for the establishment of a 

 National School of Forestry in Scotland, as well as with a view of 

 furthering and stimulating a greater improvement in the scientific 

 management of woods in Scotland and the sister countries which has 

 manifested itself during recent years, that there should be held in Edin- 

 burgh, during 1884, and at such season of the year as may be arranged, 

 an International Exhibition of forest products and other objects of 

 interest connected with forestry. " It was then moved, seconded, and 

 agreed : — "That this meeting pledges itself to give its hearty co-opera- 

 tion and patronage to the promotion of an International Forestry Exhibi- 

 tion in Edinburgh in 1884 ; and those present resolve to give their best 

 efforts and endeavours to render the Exhibition a success, and of such 

 importance and general interest as to make it worthy of the name of 

 International." 



' It is in accordance with this resolution, and in discharge of obligations 

 which it imposed, that this volume has been prepared.' 



