Unasylva - Vol. 2, No. 1













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January-February 1948

Unasylva is prepared by the Division of Forestry and Forest Products and published by the Information Service of FAO at the Organization's temporary headquarters in Washington, D. C. It is printed in Baltimore, Maryland, U. S. A.

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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

STATISTICS

J. P. KAGAN
T. SANDBU

SECRETARIAT

J. VINZANT, Chief
R. C. FORTUNESCU, Editor

EUROPEAN WORKING. GROUP

D. R. CAMERON, Chief
P. SARTORIUS
R. G. FONTAINE

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

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.

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Table of Contents


Editorial

Problems

Justus W. Gonggryp
Outline of a general forest policy for the tropics

Travel notes of two officers of the Division of Forestry and Forest Products
Latin-American forestry

William Vogt
Latin-American Timber, Ltd.

Staff of the Division Forestry and Forest Products
Consumption and production of paper and paperboard in the twenty Latin-American republics, 1935-461

National situations

Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
British Guiana
British Honduras
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
French Guiana
Guatemala
Haiti
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Puerto Rico
Surinam
Trinidad
Uruguay
Venezuela

The work of FAO

International forestry and forest products conference for Latin America
Activities of FAO's subcommittee on unexploited forests
Third World Forestry Congress
International Poplar Commission

News of the world

Forestry
Forest Products
Meetings and Conventions
Personalities

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