: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULITURE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL BULLETIN NO. 18 Washington, D. C. Issued May 1952 THE FORESTS OF CONTINENTAL LATIN AMERICA (Including European Possessions) A Bibliography of Selected Literature, 1920-1950 Compiled by Frances J. Flick Division of Bibliography, Library United States Government Printing Office Washington : 1952 For tile Superintendent of Ilortillienis. U. S. Itiirerlinielit Printing I Wive Washington 2:i. D. - routs OSCUMM V4g1 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL BULLETIN NO. 18 Washington, D. C. Issued May 1952 THE FORESTS OF CONTINENTAL LATIN AMERICA (Including European Possessions) A Bibliography of Selected Literature, 1920-1950 Compiled by Frances J. Flick Division of Bibliography, Library United States Government Printing Office Washington : 1952 For sale by the Superintendent of Doenments. U. S. Government Printing (Mier Washington 25. D. D. - Pike -15 cents ID 1.1) igti a N PREFACE This bibliography is the result of a selective examination of book and periodical literature published between 1920 and 1950, on the forests of Mexico, Central America, and South America. It is a guide to back- ground information for anyone interested in the standing timber re source and its utilization, in these lands below our Mexican border. The listing of references is subdivided by country. British Honduras and the Guianas are included on the basis of their place in the conti- nental economy, even though they are not Latin-American in a polit- ical sense. Due to the large number of entries collected under the General heading, and for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, these four divisions again are subdivided, segregating references on vegetation and timber description from ,forest policy and forest industry materi- al. A short list of periodicals publishing Latin-American forestry infor- mation follows the main body of the bibliography. This, in turn, is fol- lowed by the index, a subject guide to general and geographic sections A user of this index will not find the terms Forests and Forestry used, because it is assumed that these terms, overlay almost every item in theth index. He will find, however, such headings as Resources, Policies, Forest Types, Maps, botanical names of timber trees, and common names of forest products. Within this last category, the bib- liographic scope includes the major products:timber, lumber, ply- wood, crossties, pulpwood, fuelwood, naval stores, tannin sources, chicle, and balata. Omitted are commodities like Hevea rubber, cin- chona, and palm products, each of which occupies a major domain for separate bibliographic exploration. Likewise omitted, or included only incidentally, are references on taxonomic botany, wood technol- ogy, forest legislation, commodity production statistics, and trade statistics. Most of the references are in English, Spanish, or Portuguese, with a sprinkling of German, French, Dutch, and, other languages. Standards of usage and accenting may vary within our entries, just as they do in the countries where the written literature originates. S. J. Record and R. W. Hess' Timbers of the New World (1943) served as a stand- ard of botanical nomenclature for the particular trees and timbers covered by this bibliography. Over 4,000 references were examined in the course of compilation, most of which are housed in the U. S. Department of Agriculture Li- brary. Call numbers following citations refer to this collection. In those cases where another library's collection was used, a designa- tion like Libr. Cong. or Pan Amer. Union Libr. follows the citation. The symbol FS stands for U. S. Forest Service files. The U. S. Forest Service Division of Forest Economics, Foreign For- estry Section, headed by A. C. Cline, has been an active collaborator in this bibliography. Particular thanks are due Karl R. Mayer of that office, who bore the major burden of revision. SOURCES CONSULTED Card Catalogs U. S. D. A. Library Library of Congress Pan American Union Library Indexes and Serials Agricultural Economics Literature, Jan. 1927-June 1942. Bibliography of Agriculture, July 1942-Dec. 1951. Forestry Abstracts, 1945/46-1950/51. Tropical Woods, Mar. 1925-Nov. 1950. Selected Special Sources AHERN, G. P., and NEWTON, H. K. Bibliography on woods of the world. New York, Amer. Soc. Mech. Engin., 1928. 77 p. BIBLIOGRAPHY on conservation problems in Mexico. In Pan American Union, Div. of Agricultural Cooperation, Conserva- tion Sect. Report on activities, 1943-46, p. 88-111. Washing- ton 1946. BLAKE, S. F. and ATWOOD, A. C. Geographical guide to the floras of the world, I. USDA Misc. P. 401, 336 p. June 1947. ECONOMIC studies of underdeveloped countries: Latin America and the Caribbean area. ' U. S. Dept. State, Div. Libr. & Ref. Serv., Bibliog. 52, 90 p. May 4, 1950. RECORD, S. J., and HESS, R. W. Timbers of the New World. New Haven, Yale U. Press, 1943. 640 p. VERDOORN, F., ed. Plants and plant science in Latin America. Waltham, Mass., Chron. Bot., 1945. 383 p. iv CONTENTS Page PREFACE iii SOURCES CONSULTED iv GENERAL 1 Forest Description: Trees, Timber, Utilization of Species 11 ARGENTINA 21 Forest Description: Trees, Timber, Utilization of Species 30 BOLIVIA 42 BRAZIL 44 Forest Description: Trees, Timber, Utilization of Species 56 CENTRAL AMERICA 71 British Honduras 72 Costa Rica 76 Guatemala 78 Honduras 80 Nicaragua 81 Panama 83 El Salvador 84 CHILE 85 COLOMBIA 92 ECUADOR 99 THE GUTANAS 104 British Guiana 104 French Guiana 108 Surinam (Dutch Guiana) 111 MEXICO 113 Forest Description: Trees, Timber, Utilization of Species 129 PARAGUAY 138 PERU 140 URUGUAY. 144 VENEZUELA 147 PERIODICALS 154 INDEX .155 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL BULLETIN NO. 18 Washington, D. C. Issued May 1952 THE FORESTS OF CONTINENTAL LATIN AMERICA (Including European Possessions) Compiled by Frances I. Flick Division of Bibliography, Library GENERAL 1. AHERN, G. P. Tropical hardwoods with special reference to their uses in American industries. Pan Amer. Union B. 61:219-227. Mar.1927. 150.9 M76 Latin America as a source of timber. Outlines a program for devel- oping hardwood supplies. 2. LA AMERICA latina es riquisima en maderas de construe- elem. Ingen. Internac. Constr. 34(2):74,76,78. Illus. Feb.1946. Libr. Cong. Latin America is very rich in construction timbers. Reviews briefly the forest economy of each country. 3. AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. A catalog of maps of Hispanic America. New York, 1930-32. 4 v. 241.91 Am3 4. AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. Map of the Ameri- cas; 1:5,000,000. New York, 1942. 3 p. and index. 227 Am32M Also Provisional Ed., 1:1,000,000. 1922-43. 102 p. and index. 227 Am32 5. BABBITT, W. C. South America and its forest resources. Wood Turning 15(8):16-21. Illus. May 1922. 99.82 W852 6. BARBOUR, W. R. Forest problems of tropical America. Inter-Amer. Conf. on Agr. Rpt. 1:128-131. 1930. 5 In82R 7. BEEKMAN, W. B. Hout in alle tijden, 3. Bossen, bomen en hout van thans; de voornaamste bostypen en houtsoorten der wereld. Deventer, Kluwer, 1950? 800 p. Ref. Map. 99.79 B39 Wood throughout the ages, v. 3. Forests, trees and timber in our time; outstanding forest types and timbers of the world. South America, p.517-622, by P. K. Heringa, includes a map of forest area, a general discussion of forest cover and forest types, regions of for- est exploitation and industry development, followed by sections on specific countries and their outstanding timber species. Central America, p.645-668, also by P. K. Heringa. The sections are illus- trated. 8. BENNETT, H. H. Soil conservation in Latin America. In Plants and Plant Science in Latin America, p.165-169. Waltham, Mass., Chron. Bot.,1945. 453 V58 Surveys agricultural practices detrimental to forests as well as to soil conservation, including the milpa and conuquero systems. 2 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL BUL. 18, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 9. BERGE, W. Cartels; challenge to a free world. Washington, Pub. Aff. Press, 1944. 266 p. Ref. 280 B454 Sec. 8, Quebracho extract. 10. BETTS, A. W. Marketing problems of tropical hardwood ex- ploitation. Timberman 27(9):178,180,182. July 1926. 99.81 T484 Steps which must be taken by the lumber and plywood industry in the United States, to adapt Latin American hardwoods to our markets. 11. BEVAN, A. Consider the forests of tropical America. Agr. Amer.3:183-186. Oct.1943. 1 F752A 12.BEVAN, A. A forest policy for the American tropics. Carib. Forester 4(2):49-53. Ian.1943. 1.9622 T2C23 Facing realities of forest depletion, and basing policy on local needs, research in woods, and other factors. Spanish summary, p.53. 13. BEVAN, A. Forest resources of tropical America. InWilson, C. M., ed. New crops for the New World, p.181-191. Illus. ITew York, Macmillan, 1945. 31 W69 14. BEVAN, A. Forestry in Latin America and its future. In_ Plants and Plant Science in Latin America, p.174-176. Waltham, Mass., Chron. Bot.,1945. 453 V58 Maps indicate general distribution of forests. Commercial species are broadly shown. A chart estimates total forest areas for each country. 15. BEVAN, A. Tropical forest research. J. Forestry 40:169- 172. Feb.1942. 99.8 F768 Similar treatment in Spanish, Organizacien y desarrollo de la inves- tigacien forestal. Mexico, D. F., Segunda Conferencia Inter-Ameri- cana de Agricultura,1944. 12 p. 99.24 B462 16. CARIBBEAN COMMISSION. Forest research within the Car- ibbean area. Washington,1947. 128 p. Ref. Map. 99.34 C19 Participants in the meeting producing this report were from the British, French and Dutch West Indies; from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the United States. Summarizes work done and proposes future policies for British Honduras and the Guianas. 17. CONSUMPTION and production of paper and paperboard in the twenty Latin-American republics, 1935-46. Unasylva 2:27-31.