158 Forestry Quarterly. 



A forest reserve of 100,000 acres in Miffin, Juniata and Hunt- 

 ingdon Counties in Pennsylvania has been recently created and 

 named the Rothrock Forest Reserve, in honor of Dr. J. T. 

 Rothrock, the present Forest Commissioner. The region is rich 

 in oil, gas, fire clay and ganister and an arrangement has been 

 made for their development under proper supervision. 



Mr. Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the Bureau of Forestry, has been 

 made Professor in the Yale Forest School. Assistant Professor 

 J. W. Tourney has been advanced to a full professorship. 



Mr. R. H. Charlton, Sp. N.Y.C.F., has been promoted to be 

 Inspector of Forest Reserves. 



Mr. Walter Mulford '01, N.Y.C.F., has been elected President 

 of Connecticut Forestry Association. A portion of the appropria- 

 tion made by the Legislature two years ago has been expended 

 in the purchase, survey, and protection of about 700 acres of 

 land in Portland. The work at Windsor, which is being con- 

 ducted at the expense of the Connecticut Experiment Station, 

 has consisted in the planting of 60,000 trees to determine the 

 best methods of reclaiming the waste lands of the State. 



Theodor Karlowitsch Arnold, Councillor of the Public Lands 

 Ofiice of Russia and justly known as the Father of Russian 

 Forestry, died recently at an advanced age. His work for forestry 

 dates from the 40' s of the last century and he was directly or 

 through his pupils the teacher of all Russian foresters. 



SUMMER LECTURES ON FORESTRY. 



A cour.se of lectures on forestry will be given at Idyllwild, San 

 Jacinto Mountain, California, under the auspices of the Univer- 

 sity of California. The regular work will be under Dr. Willis L. 

 Jepson, of the Department of Botany, and Prof. Arnold V. 

 Stubenrauch, of the Department of Agriculture. In addition 

 special lectures Vt^ill be given by Mr. GifFord Pinchot. The 

 course lasts from July 29th to August loth. 



CANADA. 



Canada is rapidly progressing in forestry work. The Depart- 

 ment of Interior is encouraging planting in the Northwest by 



