March-April 1948
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
SIR JOHN BOYD ORR, Director-General
DIVISION OF FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS
MARCEL LELOUP, Director
FORESTRY BRANCH
B. B. SHOW, Chief
J. D. B. HARRISON
T. FRANCOIS
D. Y. LIN
M. A. HUBERMAN
H. SCAVENIUS
FOREST PRODUCTS BRANCH
E. GLESINGER, Chief
P. TERVER
L. J. VERNELL
A. GORDON
S. J. BAUER
N. DE FELSÖVANYI
SECRETARIAT
J. VINZANT, Chief
R. C. FORTUNESCU, Editor
EUROPEAN WORKING. GROUP
D. R. CAMERON, Chief
P. SARTORIUS
R. G. FONTAINE
S. J. BAUER
STANDING ADVISORY COMMITEE ON FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS
Chairman, L. F. WATTS Chief of U. S. Forest Service, Washington, D. C., U. S. A.
Vice-Chairman, B. DUFAY Director-General of Waters and Forests, Paris France
G. CERF, Adviser to the Belgian Government on International Timber Affairs
H. G. CHAMPION, Professor of Forestry, Oxford University, England
A. FJELSTAD, Delegate of the Royal Norwegian Government on Agricultural Affairs, Washington, D. C., U. S. A.
S. C. LEE, Chief, Department of Forestry, Nanking, China
D. A. MACDONALD, Acting Dominion Forester, Dominion Forest Service, Department of Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Canada
H. MARK, Director of the Institute of High Polymer Chemistry and of the Chemical Department, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, New York, U. S. A.
E. SAARI, Professor, Forestry Department, University of Helsinki, Finland
P. DE SOUZA, Chief, Division of Forests and Parks, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
H. G. WINKELMANN, Director of the Swiss Forest Economy Association, Solothurn, Switzerland
Subcommittee on Forestry Education: Chairman, H. G. CHAMPION
Subcommittee on Chemical Wood Technology: Chairman, H. MARK
Subcommittee on Mechanical Wood Technology: Chairman, J. CAMPREDON, Chief of the Central Research Services for Wood, Paris, France
Subcommittee on Forest Research: Chairman, E. I. KOTOK, Assistant Chief in charge of Research, U. S. Forest Service, Washington, D C., U. S. A.
Subcommittee on Unexploited Forests: Chairman, T. GILL, Secretary of the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Foundation, Washington, D. C., U. S. A.
Subcommittee on Pulp and Paper: Chairman, L. RYS, Professor of Wood Chemistry at the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia
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Improved pulp cooking methodsH. L. Shantz
An estimate of the shrinkage of Africa's tropical forests
Edward I. Kotok
Organization of research in the U. S. Forest ServiceHenry Clepper
Forestry as a career in the United StatesJ. Rolley
Forest conditions in Syria and Lebanon
Forestry activities in Europe
European Timber Subcommittee
First session of the European forestry and Forest Products Commission
Forestry
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Meetings and conventions
Personalities
Letters to the Editor
Recent references on improved pulp cooking methods
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