242 Finland. 
ture, and employs an experienced planter to direct efforts 
at reforestation. 
A forestry journal (quarterly) is also published, and 
a professional literature is beginning to start into ex- 
istence. 
It may be of interest in this connection to cite a 
tough calculation by Dr. Mayr of the available material 
in European Russia and Finland combined which he 
places at 4,500 million cubic feet, of which he considers 
one-half available for export. 
It is impossible to prognosticate what position Russia 
and Finland, together the largest wood producers in 
Europe, will take in the future world commerce and 
how rapidly better practices, for which the machinery 
is already half started, will become generally adopted. 
At present, especially in Russia proper, the general cor- 
tuption of the bureaucracy is an almost insurmountable 
obstacle to improvement. 
