Unasylva - Vol. 2, No. 5













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September-October 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
J. P. KAGAN

SECRETARIAT

R. C. FORTUNESCU, Editor, in charge of Secretariat

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

TECHNICAL COMMITTEES

Forestry Education: Chairman, H. G. CHAMPION

Chemical Wood Technology: Chairman, H. MARK

Mechanical Wood Technology: Chairman, J. CAMPREDON, Chief of the Central Research Services for Wood, Paris, France

Unexploited Forests: Chairman, T. GILL, Secretary of the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Foundation, Washington, D. C., U. S. A.

Pulp and Paper: Chairman, L. RYS, Professor of Wood Chemistry at the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia

Forest Research: Chairman, E. I. KOTOK, Assistant Chief in charge of Research, U. S. Forest Service, Washington, D C., U. S. A.

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Table of Contents


Forest conservation and freedom from want

Problems

Staff Division of Forestry and Forest Products
A survey of employment and education in forestry

Charles A. Gillett
The American tree-farm movement

George F. Burke and Russel W. Beeson
Irrigation agriculture in its relation to lumber requirements

National situations

Bo Eklund
The organization and work of the Swedish forest research institute

G. W. Chapman
Forestry in Iraq

Commodity reports

Research and Planning Division
Europe's timber problem

Pulp and paper

The work of FAO

Research tour of the international poplar commission, April 1948
Forestry and forest products at the FAO annual conference, 1948
The third meeting of FAO's committee on wood chemistry
Inter-American conference on the conservation of renewable natural resources
Reconvened third session of FAO/ECE timber committee
Industrial development and trade in Europe
UNESCO discusses the newsprint situation

News of the world

General
Fundamental Science
Silviculture and management
Mensuration, increment, and yield
Forest Protection
Logging and Engineering
Conversion
Utilization
Economics and Statistics
Policy, Legislation, and Administration
Meetings and Conventions
Personalities

Book reviews

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