Bamboos of the world is a comprehensive compilation on bamboos species and basis primarily on literature. The aims of the work, scope and arrangement, as stated in the introduction, have, so far, proven well settled and are continued with only some slight modifications in format, and some extension in coverage.

The work is interesting because it contains the first of many important plants, of their uses and the first descriptions of the treatment of diseases-Cholera, for instance-and of several customs and habits of the natives. He had a most extensive and accurate knowledge of the writings of all who had gone before him and his second commonsense enabled him, with confidence, to seprate facts from fable. He knew personally all the plants within his reach from which drugs were derived. For the rest he was indefatigable in his enquiries from native physicians, of India, and of traders and others from all parts of moors, persians, Arabs and Malaya.

The scope of forest management; Objects of management; Sustained yield; The production period or rotation; The normal forest; The organisation of Forests; The actual growing stock and its increment; The yield and its regulation; The preparation of working plans; The historical development of Forest management; Appendices, I Some working plan forms used by the British Forestry commission, II Extracts from British Forest Management Tables, III Calculation of profit (extracted from the British Forestry commission working plans code)