GREAT BRITAIN AND HER COLONIES. 
It is a remarkable fact that the nation which can 
boast of the most extensive forest department in one 
of her colonies, has at home not yet been able to come 
to an intelligent conception even, not to speak of 
application, of proper forest policy or forest economy. 
One of the English authorities on the subject writes 
still in 1900: “With so much land of poor quality 
lying uncultivated in many parts of the British Isles, 
the apathy shown towards forestry in Britain is one of 
the things that it is impossible to understand.” 
If we should venture to seek for an explanation, we 
would find it in geographical and physical conditions, 
but still more in personal and political characteristics, 
historically developed, such as also in the United 
States make progress of forestry slower than it would 
otherwise be. 
Due to her insular position with which in part the 
development of her naval supremacy is connected, 
Historical Inquiries concerning Forests and Forest Laws, by PERCIVAL 
Lewis, 1811, gives a full account of the practices in the old ban forests. 
English Forests and Forest Trees, 1853, anonymous, gives an interesting 
account of the old ‘forests’ and their history. 
Our Forests and Woodlands, by JoHN NISBET, 1900, has a chapter on the 
historical development of forest laws. 
‘Wm. Scuuicu, Manual of Forestry, vol. I, 34 ed., 1906, brings in convenient 
form an account of conditions in various parts of the British Empire. 
Scuwappacu, Forstliche Zustinde in England. Zeitschrift fiir Forst und 
Jagdwesen, 1903, is an account of forest conditions from the pen of a-practical 
observer. 
B. Rispentrop, Forestry in India, 1900. Also various reports of the forest 
departments of the various British Colonies. 
