INTRODUCTION 



This bibliography of North American forestry includes references 

 to the more important literature on forestry published in Canada, 

 Mexico, and the United States prior to 1930. To a certain extent, it 

 brings up to date the material contained in Catalogue of Publications 

 Relating to Forestry, 1 but goes considerably further in the selection and 

 classification of material. 



The North American bibliography takes its place in a series of 

 similar forestry bibliographies being prepared by various nations 

 under the general impetus of the International Union of Forest Re- 

 search Organizations. The idea of such an international series of 

 bibliographies, designed to cover the more valuable forestry literature 

 of the world was first advanced by Dr. Phillip Flury of the Swiss 

 Forest Experiment Station at the fourth meeting of the International 

 Union of Forest Experiment Stations held in Austria in 1903. At the 

 next meeting in 1906, the proposal that the Union publish these bibli- 

 ographies was adopted. During the World War, however, the funds 

 collected for this purpose were lost, and the work came to a standstill. 

 The proposal was again taken up at the seventh international meeting 

 at Stockholm in 1929, but instead of the original plan, that the Union 

 issue a complete international bibliography, it was decided that each 

 country would publish its own. 



The preparation of the forestry bibliography for the United States 

 was first suggested as a project of the Forestry Committee of the Divi- 

 sion of Biology and Agriculture of the National Research Council. 2 

 After the project had been approved by the Division and the Council 

 it was realized that the size and complexity of the undertaking were 

 such as to require the cooperation of the Forest Service, especially since 

 the Forest Service library was the largest and most complete of its 

 kind in the country and so constituted the best source for the material 

 required. Accordingly, the bibliography was made a cooperative 

 project of the two agencies. The National Research Council provided 

 the initial funds for collecting the material, and the Forest Service 

 provided the library service and technical supervision. 



Originally, the bibliography was to have been restricted to material 

 published in the United States. However, after the work got under 

 w T ay, it was realized that many of the publications of both Canada 

 and Mexico contained material of immediate and direct interest to 

 foresters of the United States, especially since climate, soils, topog- 

 raphy, and many species and problems were similar or closely related 



i United States Department of Agriculture Library, with the cooperation of the 

 Forest Service, catalogue of publications relating to forestry in the library of 

 the united states department of agriculture. U. S. Dept. Agr. Library Bull. 76. 

 302 pp. 1912. 



2 Membership of the Forestry Committee in 1929 when the project was approved in- 

 cluded Raphael Zon, Director, Lake States Forest Experiment Station, St. Paul, Minn., 

 Chairman ; Henry C. Cowles, University of Chicago ; S. T. Dana, University of Michigan ; 

 R. T. Fisher, Harvard Forest ; W. R. Hine, State Forester, New Orleans, La. ; B. P. 

 Kirkland, University of Washington ; Aldo Leopold. Forest Products Laboratory : David 

 T. Mason, Mason and Stevens, Portland, Oreg. ; E. N. Munns, Forest Service, Washington, 

 D. C. ; and L. L. Woodruff, Yale University (ex-officio). 



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