AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARBORISTS 



RECOGNIZING the need of an 

 association for the future de- 

 velopment of their profession a 

 number of City Foresters, men 

 interested in landscape forestry and 

 others qualified for membership, have 

 organized the American Academy of 

 Arborists. Arborist is the term now 

 being generally accepted to designate 

 men proficient in city and landscape 

 forestry. The Association will be con- 

 ducted on a highly technical and 

 professional basis, its aim being ex- 

 pressed in the constitution as being "to 

 place and maintain the practical arbori- 

 culture and landscape forestry of the 

 country on the highest professional 

 basis." There are to be two classes of 

 members. Fellows, who must be over 

 25 years of age, who are graduates from 

 schools specializing in Arboriculture or 

 the arts and sciences closely connected 

 wnth Arboriculture, and Honorary Mem- 

 bers who shall be persons of broadly 

 acknowledged eminence in Arboricul- 

 ture or landscape forestry. 



The charter members of the organiza- 

 tion are Hemian W. Merkel. Chief 

 Forester of the New York Zoological 

 Park; William W. Colton, Forest Com- 

 missioner of West Newton, Mass.; 

 Prof. J. W. Toimiey, Director of the 

 Yale Forest School; J. J. Levison 

 arboriculturist of the Brooklyn, New 

 York Park Department; Harold J. Neal, 

 City Forester of Worcester, Mass. ; 

 R. B. Maxwell, City Forester, of Balti- 

 more, Md. ; George A. Cromie, City 

 Forester of New Haven, Conn. ; James 

 H. Walker, Citv Forester, Newark, 

 N. J.; H. B. Filer, City Forester, 

 Buffalo, N. Y.; and A. f. Hastings, 

 City Forester, Jersey City, N. J. 



From these charter members the 

 officers were selected. They are : Presi- 

 dent, Hermann W. Merkel; Secretary, 

 J. J. Levison; Vice-Presidents, William 

 W. Colton and R. B. Maxwell; Direc- 

 tors, James H. Walker, George A. 

 Cromie and Harold J. Neal. 



JOHN BIRKINBINE DEAD 



THE many friends of forestry in 

 Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, 

 lost an ardent advocate of 

 forest conservation, in the 

 death, on May 14, of John Birkinbine 

 of Philadelphia. Mr. Birkinbine was 

 President of the Pennsylvania Forestry 

 Association, an office he had held con- 

 tinuously from 1893, and to which he 

 devoted much of his time and energy. 

 He worked enthusiastically and steadily 

 in the cause for the last thirty years 

 and was active in the founding of the 

 Pennsylvania Forestry Association in 

 1886, and in mal<ing it the successful 



organization which it has been since its 

 inception. He did not confine his 

 efforts to further the cause of forest 

 conservation to Pennsylvania, for he 

 was always eager to aid in extending 

 the agitation for the better use and 

 protection of forest lands in any part 

 of the country. His death removes 

 from active participation in the cause 

 of forestry a man who had achieved a 

 place as one of the leaders in the 

 movement. Besides his forestry inter- 

 ests Mr. Birkinbine had acquired an 

 international reputation as a water 

 power expert. 



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