NEWS NOTES 



At Cornell University 



The faculty of the Department of For- 

 estry at Cornell has just been increased by 

 the appointment of Mr. Arthur B. Reck- 

 nagel as professor. Mr. Recknagel grad- 

 uated from Yale College in 1904, and from 

 the Yale Forest School in 1906. He has 

 been engaged in many kinds of work in 

 the U. S. Forest Service, and is at present 

 an Assistant District Forester in District 

 3. The plan of the forestry course at Cor- 

 nell is that each student is to devote the 

 fifth year of his college work to advanced 

 study or research along the lines in which 

 he wishes to specialize. Accordingly, each 

 member of the faculty is expected to offer 

 advanced work in one line. Mr. Recknagel 

 will develop forest management as his spe- 

 cialty. As a part of the work in forest 

 management, he will have charge of the 

 eight weeks of work in camp which will be 

 given the graduate students in the spring 

 term. For the present, Mr. Recknagel will 

 also teach lumbering and wood technology. 



It is expected that ground will be broken 

 very soon for the forestry building at Cor- 

 nell, as the contract has just been let. The 

 building will include three laboratories for 

 wood technology and timber testing; lab- 

 oratories for silviculture, mensuration, 

 dendrology and utilization ; a lecture room 

 with an automatic window-darkening ap- 

 paratus to facilitate the use of lantern 

 slides; class-rooms, a reading room, semi- 

 nar, forestry club room, museum, drafting 

 room and a series of offices. There will 

 also be a locker room, freight room, in- 

 strument room and tool room. The build- 

 ing is to be ready for occupancy sometime 

 during the college year 1913-14. At present 

 the Department of Forestry is occupying a 

 laboratory, class room and offices in one of 

 the recently finished buildings of the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture. 



The Department has just issued an an- 

 nouncement of its work, containing full de- 

 tails as to the plan of the course. 



Dr. Hamilton's New Position 



Dr. Frederick W. Hamilton, recently 

 President of Tufts and Jackson Colleges, 

 has re-entered the business field, from which 

 he withdrew several years ago for profes- 

 sional work as an educator, and has taken 

 the position of General Manager of the 

 American Forestry Company. 



As a young man, Dr. Hamilton's success- 

 ful business career, combined with his broad 



education, early brought him to the front. 

 For many years he was a trustee of Tufts 

 College and later became its President, keep- 

 ing at the same time other high positions in 

 the educational world, including membership 

 of the Massachusetts State Board of Educa- 

 tion. 



The success and rapid growth of the 

 American Forestry Company, with its "Lit- 

 tle Tree Farms," open a field of unusual op- 

 portunity to a man of Dr. Hamilton's caliber, 

 in the combination which forestry offers of 

 the commercial and the aesthetic, and it is, 

 therefore, with much enthusiasm that Dr. 

 Hamilton has associated himself with the 

 Company, and taken up his new duties. 



This affiliation will allow Mr. Theodore 

 F. Borst, Forest Engineer of the Company, 

 to devote his energies more exclusively to 

 the professional side of the prosperous in- 

 dustry of which he was the founder. 



Dr. Hamilton will from now on make his 

 headquarters at the offices of the American 

 Forestry Company at 15 Beacon Street, Bos- 

 ton, Mass. 



The American Forestry Company is to be 

 congratulated upon obtaining the services of 

 a man who has made a marked success in 

 the fields both of business and education. 



New Forest Reserves. 



Following investigations which have been 

 made by officers of the Canadian Forestry 

 Department, it is proposed to set aside a 

 number of new forest reserves. The largest 

 is on the shores of Lesser Slave Lake, and 

 comprises 4,788 square miles. About 350,- 

 000,000 feet of lumber is available there, and 

 the reservation is recommended because of 

 the unsuitability of the land for agricultural 

 purposes and the necessity of conserving a 

 timber supply for the future. 



North of Lake la Biche, Alberta, another 

 reserve is suggested. In Saskatchewan a 

 reserve has been recommended at Fort a la 

 Corne, while one in Manitoba is likely to be 

 established. It is intended to extend con- 

 siderably this year the pine forest reserve 

 north of Prince Albert, and also those in 

 British Columbia. 



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