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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Russian Forest Guard. 



note the uniform and the conspicuous badge as well as the array of tools in general use by foresters 



in russia for forest planting. 



lished in 1898, was almost the first 

 forest school to be founded in this 

 country, and throughout its existence 

 remained a unique institution. Nearly 

 a year ago, however, feeling that the 

 school was not filling the place which 

 he had always hoped it might, he 

 decided to discontinue it and to return 

 for good to his old home in Darmstadt. 

 From his first arrival in this country Dr. 

 Schenck's virile personality made itself 

 strongly felt, and his loss would be 

 sincerely mourned by foresters and 

 lumbermen generally should he fall a 

 sacrifice in the present war. 



Reports of individuals who have been 

 killed in battle are naturally slow in 

 reaching this country, but on November 

 13 a brief news despatch announced the 

 death of Professor Fricke, one of the 

 foremost German foresters and for 

 several years past director of the forest 



academy at Munden, where Dr. Fer- 

 now, now Dean of the Faculty of 

 Forestry at the University of Toronto, 

 studied forestry. Prof. Fricke has been 

 a frequent writer on mensuration and 

 silviculture, and is probably best known 

 in this country because of his efforts to 

 show that tolerance is sometimes, at 

 least, as much a matter of available 

 moisture as of available light. His 

 investigations of this subject not only 

 aroused European foresters to the 

 necessity of looking down as well as up 

 in their studies of tree development, 

 but did much to give a new direction 

 to investigations along this line in this' 

 country. 



While American foresters have lately 

 acquired a better understanding of the 

 scientific work of Russian foresters, 

 and have even formed ties of friendship 

 with those who have visited this country, 



