NATURAL HISTORY AND PH YSIOCJ RAPH Y OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 
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ARTICLE II. 
INOTPIS ON THP: natural history and PHYSIO- 
GRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 
By W. F. Ganoncl 
44 .— On Forestry Literature Important for New' Brunswick. 
(Read January 8, 1901.) 
A well-formulated forestry policy is the most pressing need of New 
Brunswick. Its development must be based upon a knowledge of the 
experience of other countries, particularly of those which, like some of 
the eastern United States, are conditioned as to the forestry problem 
not unlike this province. For this purpose the reports of the United 
States government, and of the different states which have established 
Forestry Boards or Commissions, are invaluable. It would be of the 
greatest service to the forestry interests of this province if these 
reports could be collected together in some accessible place in New' 
Brunswick while they are still obtainable. This could most appro- 
priately be undertaken by this Society working through a “ Forestry 
Committee,” whose duty it would be to apply in the name of the 
Society, and of the Province, for these reports, and to keep them, when 
obtained, clas.sified and accessible to all inquirers. The committee 
should also collect newspaper and other articles relating to Canadian 
forests, and take the leading American journals devoted to the subject. 
The principal reports of value would 'be the following. The United 
States Government, both through the Division of Forestry of the 
Department of Agriculture and through recent reports of the Geolo- 
gical Survey, has published the most abundant and valuable matter 
upon American forestry. The following states, through their Forestry 
Boards or Commissions, have issued valuable reports, — New York, 
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Carolina. 
Maine has a Forestry Board which has published two or three reports, 
but its work appears to be suspended. There are also some scattered 
