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A FEW weeks ago was issued a Blue-book of general interest, the Report of the Advisory Committee on Forestry for the period July to October, 1912 (Cd. 6713, price 6d.). The Advisory Committee on Forestry comprises such well-known names as Sir E. Stafford Howard, Sir S. Eardley-W.ilmot (late Inspector-General of Forests, India), Sir D. Prain (director of Kew), Sir William Schlich (the Oxford professor of forestry), and Prof. Somerville, of the Oxford School of Rural Economics, who is perhaps as well known for his writings on forestry as for those on agriculture; and Mr. E. R. Pratt, president of the Royal English Arboricultural Society. Of the ten members of the Committee only four are professional foresters, so that the professional element is not even in a majority. Mr. R. L. Robinson, the chief of the forestry branch of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, fulfills the office of secretary to the Advisory Committee, and is apparently the author of the two chief appendices to the report, though one of these is not signed. These appendices, on forest research and development, contain a mass of technical information and interesting general observations, which will well repay perusal by those interested in British forestry.
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Report of the Advisory Committee on Forestry . Nature 91, 516–517 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091516a0
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