Forestry Occasional Paper 1974/1

FOREST GENETIC RESOURCES information - No. 3 CONTENTS

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CONTENTS

Forgen Miscellanea

FAO Contribution to International Seed Procurement of Forest Trees of the USA

Canadian Symposium on the Conservation of Forest Gene Resources

Gene Resource Conservation: IUFRO Working Party S2.02.2 by L. Roche

Gene Resource Conservation: Data Sheet on Eucalyptus globulus by J.W. Turnbull

Some Aspects on Conservation of Genetic Resources of Indigenous Forest Tree Species of Current Commercial Value in Venezuela by H. Finol and G.H. Melchior

Distribution, Ecology and Variation of Pinus brutia in Turkey by M. Arbez

Characteristics of Some Dry Area Eucalypts and Other Species in Western Australia by P.C. Richmond

Report on Seed Collecting of Populus trichocarpa in 1972 and 1973 by R. Koster

FAO/FRI Seed Collections in Australia 1972–1973 by J.W. Turnbull

Seed Requests to Indonesia

Seed of Pinus patula from New Zealand

Seed of Exotic Pines from the Department of Forestry, Queensland

Seed of Araucaria cunninghamii

NEW PUBLICATIONS:

Programme on Man and the Biosphere, UNESCO

Seed source variation in Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands grown Mahoganies by T.F. Geary, H. Barres and R. Ybarra-Coronado

Distribution of Araucaria in Papua New Guinea by B. Gray

New Publications from India

New Publications from the Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford:

Pinus caribaea, Volume I

Proceedings of a Joint Meeting of IUFRO Working Parties