Unasylva - Vol. 2, No. 2













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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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Table of Contents


Problems

Bernerd Frank
Valuation forest lands from the public viewpoint

E. C. Jahn
Improved pulp cooking methods

H. L. Shantz
An estimate of the shrinkage of Africa's tropical forests

National situations

Edward I. Kotok
Organization of research in the U. S. Forest Service

Henry Clepper
Forestry as a career in the United States

J. Rolley
Forest conditions in Syria and Lebanon

The work of FAO

Forestry activities in Europe
European Timber Subcommittee
First session of the European forestry and Forest Products Commission

News of the world

Forestry
Forest Products
Meetings and conventions
Personalities
Letters to the Editor

Recent references on improved pulp cooking methods

General
Sulphite
Sulphate
Semichemical
Miscellaneous

Converting factors

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