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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA.
servation?” Dr. Seckendorif addressed the following proposals to the congress : —
“1. The governments of the different countries shall be recommended to advance experimental forestry with all the means standing at their command.
“ 2. Valuable results are only to be expected when the highest chiefs of experimental bureaus can put into proper form, for the necessities of forestry science, the material accumulating so rapidly in a short period. It is therefore desirable that only such experts shall be appointed as chiefs who, if necessary, can devote their entire power and time to this important subject.
“3. As soon as experimental forestry has come into existence in a jgiven land, it is for the interests of the matter that the experimental directors or chiefs be caused by the government to enter into relations with the directors of previously existing experimental institutions, in order to determine the objects to be investigated which call for international treatment, and to consider in common the methods of investigation.
“ 4. An international system of investigation and observation is called for by those questions in experimental forestry which pertain to the influence which the forest has on climate, rain, spring formation, inundations, etc.”
The immediate international investigation of these matters seems all the more necessary, as only after the full settlement of the same, the so-called question of forestry preservation can be properly answered.
The subject of the fifth day’s sitting was, ""What international unity of action seems necessary in order to put an end to the increasing devastation of forests ? ” Dr. A. Bernhardt, of Ncustadt Eberswalde, offered the following proposals, to which, besides introductory remarks, he added suggestions as to the preliminary arrangements for the assembling of future congresses at regular intervals of time :—
“1. It is acknowledged that international unit}'of action is necessary in order to take successful steps towards the prevention of the increasing devastation of w'oods, especially towards preserving and properly cultivating those woods which lie in the regions of springs and on the banks of large streams. For by their destruction at will, commerce and the industries can be greatly affected through injurious variations in the height of the waters, changes in the beds of