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THE progress of forestry in the United States is remarkable. It is barely twenty years since the first forest reserve was set aside by the Government at Washington, which to-day controls with a trained staff of foresters about 186,000,000 acres of national forests. Forestry is now a matter of great public interest, and is taught in universities, colleges, and schools, there being no fewer than twenty-three institutions giving degrees in the subject. In addition to numerous bulletins and reports issued by the U.S. Bureau of Forestry, there now appear two professional journals, the Forest Quarterly and the Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters. Various text-books on special branches of forestry have been published, but no general handbook suitable to students in America has hitherto appeared.
Elements of Forestry.
By Prof. F. F. Moon Prof. N. C. Brown. Pp. xvii + 391. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1914.) Price 8s. 6d. net.
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Elements of Forestry . Nature 95, 29 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095029a0
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