500 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 
collection of notes yet issued on this subject. It should prove of 
greatest use to Forest Officers, and to all others interested in the 
forests and afforestation. 
Much useful information has been obtained from the annual 
Reports on the administration of the Forest Department from the 
years 1906 to 1913, more especially from that of 1906, which practi- 
cally summarized the results of the Department’s work up to that 
date. Data on Togo are contained in the report of the afforestation 
of Togo with teak and other African timber trees. This was the 
result of a long tour in that country made by the author in 1911. 
From Sierra Leone much valuable knowledge was acquired as a 
result of a five months’ tour made in 1908-9, and this was embodied 
in a report which appeared in 1909. Very useful information is 
contained in the reports by the Conservator of Forests there, which 
have appeared since. A most extensive account of the forest trees 
and plants, including the Oil Palm, is given in Les Végétaux utiles 
de VAfrique tropicale francaise, by M. Chevalier, Parts I and II, 
1909, 1910 (A. Challamel), chiefly in connection with the Ivory Coast. 
In the Nofizblatt of the Berlin Botanical Station are some useful 
notes on Die Nutz Holzer der Kamerun, 1909. Also in the pamphlets 
Die Nutz Holzer Togos, Parts I and II. In this manner it is possible 
to make a comparative study of the timber trees found in the 
different parts of West Africa. The addition of the native names 
in most cases is also very valuable. 
