Forestry

Abstract

EVERYTHING connected with forestry is especially attractive just now when so much attention is being drawn to the subject in its very varied aspects by the Exhibition at Edinburgh. Dr. J. C. Brown is one of the most voluminous writers we have on forest matters; his pen indeed is scarcely ever at rest, for he has told us about forests and forest management in various parts of the world, both in ancient and modern times, and now he publishes just at an opportune moment two little books the titles of which are given above. The first of these he tells us is issued in accordance with, and in discharge of, obligations imposed by a resolution passed on March 28 last year by a “scientific, practical, and professional” assemblage presided over by the Marquess of Lothian for the purpose of furthering “the establishment of a national School of Forestry in Scotland,” and the promotion of “an International Forestry Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1884,” the last of which is now being realised, but the former has yet to be accomplished, we hope, however, at no distant date.

Introduction to the Study of Modern Forest Economy and Forestry in Norway, with Notices of the Physical Geography of the Country.

By John Croumbie Brown. (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1884.)