DEAR READUS;
In the following pages an attempt is made to treat "Forest Mensuration"
from a scientific-mathematical standpoint as well as irorn
the view point of practical application.
Naturally, pamphlets of as restricted a character as this treatise on
forest mensuration address themselves to a very restricted circle of
readers; and the expense of printing is never covered by the returns from
sales.
Thus it becomes necessary, in ortler to reduce the expense of publication,
to omit all, or practically all, lengthy explanation of a mathematical
nature which the teacher at a forest school can easily supply
in the COUrse of his lectures.
The present Biltmore pamphlet on Forest Mensuration is intended,
above all, to assist the students enlisted at the Biltmore School. 1 t contains
the teacher's dictation which the students, in former years, were
compelled to take down in long or shorthand, to the annoyance of both
teacher and students.
It cannot be expected that a pres
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