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IN a recent number (No. 8, 1928) of the Oxford Forestry Memoirs, Mr. W. E. Hiley discusses the “Forest Industry of Finland,” his brochure being based on a visit to the Finnish forests last year. It has become a curious practice with some of the younger writers on forestry questions to treat pre-War investigations as either non-existent or of little importance. Thus in his paper Mr. Hiley writes: “Much has been written in the English language about Finnish forestry and the timber trade, and English readers can acquire a good general knowledge of these subjects without leaving Britain. But so far, very little information has been available with regard to the economics of Finnish forestry.” Mr. Hiley does not define his term ‘economics,’ but a perusal of his interesting memoir fails to exhibit any marked departures from the lines of articles which appeared in 1911 in the publications of the Geographical Society of Finland. Several of these articles were from the pens of experts such as Prof. A. K. Kajander, P. W. Hannikaiven (then Director-General of State Forests), and A. B. Helander (Inspector of Forests). These articles were dealt with in the English press and in some cases by men who had a personal acquaintance with the Finnish forests.
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The Forest Industry of Finland. Nature 122, 667 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122667a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122667a0