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Two parts of the “Forest Bibliography to 1933” have now been issued from the Department of Forestry of the University of Oxford. This work has been compiled by Prof. R. S. Troup and his staff. The systematic referencing of current forest literature was commenced at Oxford in 1920, and continued jointly by the Forestry Department and the Imperial Forestry Institute after 1924. The object at first was to provide staff and students with facilities for keeping in touch with forestry literature. Recently, in response to requests, publication was decided upon. The Bibliography comprises literature published to the end of 1933, and contained in the library of the Oxford Department of Forestry. Forest literature published on and after January 1, 1934, is being dealt with under the decimal system of classification prepared by Dr. Flury and recently adopted by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations. The Oxford Bibliography is said to comprise a fairly complete list of material published in English and a considerable amount of literature published in French and German. Material from other countries is mainly confined to literature where an English, French or German summary is appended. The first part opens with a list of abbreviated titles and then gives the subjects of classification as A, General Forestry ; B, Sylviculture ; (7, Forest Protection ; D, Forest Utilization ; E, Forest Mensuration ; F, Forest Valuation and Finance ; G, Forest Management; H, Forest Policy and Economics; Meteorology ; J", Geology ; K, Education and Research ; L, Terminology and Classification of Information ; M Engineering and Surveying ; N, Botany ; O, Invertebrate Zoology ; P, Biography. Most of these branches are divided into sub-heads.
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Forest Bibliography. Nature 140, 1092 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401092a0
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