CONTENTS. 



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A. Memorial of a committee of tlie American Association for the Advancement of Science in behalf of forest 



preservation, leading to the establishment of the Division of Forestry 37 



B. List of publications relating to forestry issued from the Department of Agriculture since 1877 40 



C. Forests and forestry in the United States 45 



1. Original condition of forest areas — 



Present condition — Forest botanical description 48 



2. Trees of the United States important in forestry — 



Biological Studies: Southern lumber pines 51 



3. American woods 87 



List of the more important woods of the United States— Comparative statements of properties of 

 American woods — How to distinguish the different kinds of wood — Key to the more important 

 woods of Noith. America — Structure of the wood of the five Southern pines. 



4. Economic aspects of forest resources 116 



Forest conditions of Wisconsin — The naval store industry. 



5. Development of a forest policy 166 



Historical — Associated propaganda — Forestry commissions — Forest-fne legislation — Forestry edu- 

 cation — Federal forest policy. 



D. Forest policies of European nations 205 



E. Forest conditions and methods of forest management in Germany, with, a brief account of forest manage 



ment m British India 213 



Forest area, extent and ownership —State control— Character of forest growth— Exploitation — Price 

 of wood in the forest — Price of manufactured lumber— Yield per acre — Consumption of wood 

 materials — Financial results of forest management.— Forest administration. 

 Forest management of leading states: Prussia — Saxony— Bavaria— Wurttemberg— Baden — Alsace and 



Loi raine 225 



Methods of German forest management 238 



Forest management in British India 259 



F. Principles of silviculture 264 



How trees grow — [low to plant a forest — How to treat the wood lot — The relation of forests to farms. 



G. Principles of forest economy 299 



H. Forest influences 306 



I. The work in timber physics in the Division of Forestry. By Filibert Roth, late assistant in Division of 



Forestry 330 



Historical — Southern and Northern oak — Southern, bled and unbled pine — Distiibution of resin in 

 pine— Mechanical and physical properties of Southern pine— Strength of large beanie and columns — 

 Summary of mechanical tests on 32 species — Tests of maximum uniformity — Relation of com- 

 pression — Endwise strength to breaking load of beam — Development of the science of timber 

 physics and methods employed. 

 J. Metal ties for railways and economies in the use of wooden ties. By E. E. Russell Tratman, C. E 396 



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