May-June 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
T. SANDBU
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
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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The Latin-American conference on forestry and forest products
Teresopolis, 1948
Message from Sir John Boyd Orr, Director General of FAO
Latin-American forest development, Opening Address by the Director of FAO's Division of Forestry and Forest Products
Results of the conference
Resolutions
Delegates and representatives
FAO working papers submitted to the conference
Forest resources of Latin America
Exploitation of forest resources
Production and marketing of new wood species
Integration of forest industries
Organization of forest services
Training of personnel
The Forest inventory
Forest legislation
Presented by the Delegation of Paraguay
Forest resources of ParaguayExtracts from a Report Presented by the Delegation of Uruguay
Forestry plan of UruguayPresented by the States of São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Río Grande do SuI
The southern region of Brazil
Forestry and forest products statistics
Meetings
FAO Publications
World newsprint famine surveyed
Forestry and forest products
Meetings and conventions
Personalities
Book reviews