Forest Management and Erosion

Abstract

THE criticism has been made that Government administration annual reports from overseas often appear so belatedly that their perusal bears little relation to the probable actual position at the time. Two annual reports of the Forest Administration of Nigeria for the years 1937 and 1938 were published in 1939 (Sessional Papers Nos. 3 and 34: Government Printer, Lagos). Nigeria has been notorious for the delay in appearance of her forestry reports. That such delays are not insuperable would appear from the fact that the report for 1938 is dated by the writer February 27, 1939, and is published in the same year !