containing not only the best methods of their culture hitherto practised, but a variety of new and useful discoveries, the result of many repeated experiments : as also, plain directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of forest-trees, to the height of thirty feet and upwards, with certain success; and, on the same principles, (with as certain success) for transplanting hedges of sundry kinds, which will at once resist cattle : to which are added, directions for the disposition, planting, and culture of hedges, by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger fences in five years, than they now usually are in ten

a plea for the creation of a school of forestry in connection with the arboretum at Edinburgh

from the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

containing observations on the agriculture and climate of Canada, the United States, and the island of Cuba

his lineage, life, and times, with a history of the invention of logarithms

their arrangement and construction

as memorials of changes in the relative level of sea and land