30 The Ottawa Naturalist. [May 



Reference was also made to the relation of the forest to 

 stream flow as affecting domestic supply, irrigation and water- 

 power, municipal and city forestry, and the immense wealth 

 of fish and game in Canadian forests. 



Mr. TuUy, in dealing with the administrative side of the 

 work, stated that there were thirty-one organized Forest Re- 

 serves, under the control of the Branch, each in direct charge 

 of a trained forester. The area covered by these reserves was 

 43,800 square miles. In addition to these reserves, there were 

 Fire-ranging Districts and two Forestry Stations, from which 

 young forest trees, etc., were distributed to settlers in the 

 Prairie Provinces. One of these stations was at Indian Head 

 and the other at Sutherland. From the former over three mil- 

 lion young trees were distribtited in 1914. The Branch also had 

 research laboratories at McGill University, where problems 

 relating to the products from forest timber of all sorts were dealt 

 with by trained investigators. Those present were: — 



Messrs. Attwood, Buck, Campbell, Clark, Dickson, Eddy, 

 Fryer, Honeyman, Lelacheur, Newman, Tulley and Whyle. 



F. E. B. 



March 13th, at the residence of Mr. Geo. H. Clark. Dr. J. S. 

 Bates, Superintendent of the Forestry Products Laboratory for 

 Canada, at McGill University, Montreal, dealt with the subject 

 "Wood Fibre, Its uses in Pi^lp and Paper Making." The sub- 

 ject was handled in a very able and thorough manner and was 

 made still more educative by a series of well prepared lantern 

 slides illustrating the fibres of various woods and the pulp mak- 

 ing process in the mills. 



Mr. Clark, the host, in introducing the speaker, assured 

 him that the members appreciated his coming from Montreal 

 for the purpose of addressing the Club and to Mr. D. A. Camp- 

 bell also thanks were due for arranging Dr. Bates' trip for this 

 purpose. 



After referring to the botanical classification of the principal 

 and minor trees and many varied plants, which were used, or 

 could be tised, in the manufacture of paper, and the history of 

 the various processes of making forest timber into paper, Dr. 

 Bates stated that at the present time it cost about two cents per 

 pound to manufacture paper from the forest timber, or stated in 

 another way, forest timber suitable for paper making realized, 

 when sold as paper, the equivalent that it would if sold as lum- 

 ber at $40.00 per 1,000 feet board measure. There were about 

 70 factories in Canada manufacturing pulp and paper. About 

 50 per cent of the lumber cut for this purpose was shipped out 

 of the country as pulp wood, and of the SO per cent made into 



