ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
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MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 97.] | JANUARY. [1895. 
CCCCXXXIL—FORESTRY IN NATAL. 
" iéidelition of a apt: from the Forst und Jagd Zeitung by S 
Dietrich Brandis, K.C.LE., F.R.S., formerly Inspector-General of die 
Indian Forest Department, is contr jbüted to Nature for January 3rd, 
by Mr. W. R. Fisher, B.A., Assistant Professor of Forestry at the 
Indian Civil opr care College at Cooper’s 
lt gives a very mplete aceount of the position of forestry in this 
part of South Africa. “The Colony appears to have made a good start 
to timber, and also to have established nurseries with the object of 
planting up waste lands in the neighbourhood of its principal towns. 
MEA me ce — of activity it has suddenly abandoned the 
| enter] charge has relinquished his post, and the 
plants i in the "BENE sande ies were to be sold, 
Forestry IN NATAL. 
Natal lies between aes nal and 31° S. The clidigho: of the coast 
is almost tropical, owing to rm current from the equator. Mangrove 
: tropical Indian fruit 
inland, and 
' y az psc on L^ Wit sf by the Kathlamba or Lager 
a pic chain attaining altitudes which exceed 9600 feet, and 
wes M Natal from the Tr ansvaal, the Orange Free State, and 
Basut These mountains forn the eastern boundary of the high 
South African plateau, which is drained by the Orange River and its 
tributarie 
Natal is is | scantily ppn containing 18,755 square miles, with 
532,000 inhabitants, of whom 38,000 on nly ar are Europeans. Most of the 
latter are English who an by sea and founded Port Durban, but a 
few are descended from the Dutch Boers who eame from the west in 
1838-42 and. founded Maritzburg. Natal has been an English colony 
since 1843, when the territory mus iy 3000 native rm 
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