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October. The reforestation work was entirely confined to old burns 

 which have failed to restock naturally. The species planted were west- 

 ern white pine, eastern white pine, and western yellow pine. Two and 

 three year old stock from the Forest Service nursery was used. 



A. C. McCain, for over ten years assistant district forester in charge 

 of the Office of Operation in the Intermountain District of the U. S. 

 Forest Service, has become supervisor of the Teton National Forest at 

 his own request. Mr. McCain is succeeded in Ogden by Vernon Met- 

 calf, formerly supervisor of the Lemhi National Forest. 



George S. Perry, for the past five years forester in charge of the Hull 

 and Brumbaugh State Forests in Pennsylvania, has been appointed a 

 professor of forestry at the Pennsylvania State Forest Academy. He 

 succeeds Prof. George A. Retan, who resigned to take up dairy farming 

 in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. 



"The Recovery and Remanufacture of Waste Paper" is the title of 

 an interesting volume which has been written by James Strachan, chem- 

 ist of the Donside Paper Company, Aberdeen, Scotland. The book 

 itself is printed on paper made entirely from regenerated waste paper. 



The students in forestry at the Ontario Agricultural College, Canada, 

 are mostly returned soldiers, the whole student body being less than a 

 freshman class of a few years ago. Courses in forestry have been 

 opened to women and four are in attendance at the present time. 



Lieut. J. R. Martin, among the Canadian prisoners in Germany to be 

 repatriated and sent home, was formerly district forester at Nelson, 

 British Columbia. He was wounded four times before being captured 

 and spent twenty-two months in enemy territory. 



Li the absence of Dean Hunt, of the College of Agriculture, Univer- 

 sity of California, on war work. Prof, Walter Mulford served as acting 

 dean and director; the forestry school, of which he is the head, was 

 nearly dismantled through enlistments. 



Willard Melvin Drake (University of Michigan Forest School, '06), 

 for the past four years professor of forestry at the University of Mon- 

 tana Forest School, has been appointed a professor of forestry at the 

 Pennsylvania State Forest Academy. 



