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forebts from the depredations of thieves and other injuries, but admits under proper 

 restrictions the fullest use of the timber thereon for the benefit of those needing it 

 for building and other purposes. 



Upon the invitation of the New Hampshire Forestry Commission the Association 

 at the close of its meeting in Brooklyn made an excursion to the region of the 

 White Mountains, where the forest conditionsof that region were carefully observed 

 and public meetings were held in a number of places, in which the objects and 

 results of rational forestry were discussed. 



Personal mention. — The following notes are taken from the Landwirtsoh afilicher 

 ret-Kuchs Stationeu : Prof. H. Birner, for many years director of the experiment station 

 at Kegenwalde iu Prussia, died April 19, 1894, at the age of 74 years. 



Prof. Euiil von Wolff, of the Hohenheim Station, will retire from active service 

 October 1, after iOk years of. labor at Hohenheim. He is now iu his seventy-sixth 

 year. 



Dr. E. Glintz, director of the Danzig Station, has resigned his position, and Dr. C. 

 Pingel, an assistant, has been appointed to fill the vacancy. 



