14 PREFACE. 



Timely contributions to forest literature are furnished in the articles on Methods 

 of Estimating and Measuring Standing Timber, by A. Knechtel, F. E., and A Study 

 in Practical Reforesting, by J. Y. McClintock. 



In order to demonstrate the necessity and desirability of conservative lumber- 

 ing, a valuable paper of the Bureau of Forestry of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, containing a Forest Working Plan for Township 40, New York State 

 Forest Preserve, is printed in this volume. This article is accompanied by four 

 colored maps and numerous full page illustrations. 



In addition to the official report of the heads of the other departments of the 

 Commission not here mentioned, a number of special articles upon the fishes, birds 

 and insects of the State have been contributed by various authors. Dr. B. W. 

 Evermann has furnished a paper upon the Bait Minnows, telling where they are 

 found and for what kinds of fishing they are used, with practical directions for their 

 capture and safe-keeping. This is illustrated by three colored plates. This author, 

 in conjunction with Dr. W. C. Kendall has contributed a catalogue of the Fishes of 

 Lake Ontario, with localities in which the different kinds were collected ; he has also 

 provided brief notes upon the Fishes and Mollusks of Lake Chautauqua. The notes 

 upon the figures of fishes in colors as well as the illustrations themselves were pre- 

 pared by Mr. S. F. Denton. Mr. John L. Ridgway is the author of the five colored 

 plates of game birds, the account of whose habits, distribution and characteristics 

 was written by Mr. H. C. Oberholser. Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, Chief, Department 

 of Fish and Game, at the World's Fair, St. Louis, has furnished a popular account 

 of 241 kinds of fishes of Long Island, giving notes upon their common names, 

 distribution and habits. This paper, in connection with the other articles on fish 

 already mentioned, furnishes the names of nearly all the fishes now known to occur 

 in the State. An interesting and highly valuable paper on the Aquatic Insects 

 of the Saranac Region by Prof. E. P. Felt, State Entomologist, and an article upon 

 the Canadian Red Trout by Mr. John W. Titcomb, Fish and Game Commissioner 

 of Vermont, conclude the series of natural history papers. 



