. Conservation. Forests and forestry. PUBLICATIONS! :^^, 'rm". Wood, by G. S. Boulger. Edwin Arnold, London. Placing in tlie hands of those for any reason interested in the subject of wood, its supply-sources and its uses, in a single volume, a mass of well- prepared information hitherto unavail- able except in a large number of scat- tered publications. The author has treated his subject rather more from the scientific standpoint than the popu- lar, and the work may, therefore, pos- sibly not reach so wide an audience as it would otherwise have done. The volume is divided into two parts,
. Conservation. Forests and forestry. PUBLICATIONS! :^^, 'rm". Wood, by G. S. Boulger. Edwin Arnold, London. Placing in tlie hands of those for any reason interested in the subject of wood, its supply-sources and its uses, in a single volume, a mass of well- prepared information hitherto unavail- able except in a large number of scat- tered publications. The author has treated his subject rather more from the scientific standpoint than the popu- lar, and the work may, therefore, pos- sibly not reach so wide an audience as it would otherwise have done. The volume is divided into two parts, with four appendices. The first part treats of the origin, structure and develop- ment of wood; the recognition and classification of wood; its defects; se- lection, durability and seasoning; uses, sources of supply, and methods of wood testing; while the second part has to do with the sources, characters and uses of the woods of commerce. The volume is well printed, is illus- trated with numerous handsome half- tone engravings and a large number of drawings, and is attractively put to- gether. Our Trees: How to Know Them, by Arthur I. Emerson and Clarence M. Weed. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London. Here is a volume that will prove invaluable to the student of forestry who is just be- ginning, and who wants to gain as rapidly as possible the rudimentary in- formation that will enable him or her to recognize the trees of the forest. Little attention is given to the scientific side of the subject; in fact, the Latin names of the trees are only given m a sub-caption beneath the illustrations. Of these there are almost two hun- dred, and each illustration shows sev- eral figures of the same tree—the trunk, a branch of the foliage, and the fruit, seedpod or cone, as the case rnay be. The text is written in a de- lightfully understandable style, and the illustrations are such as to make the subjects easily recognizable. The book is a handsomely gotten up vol- ume,
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