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trees. He would be glad to correspond with any one desiring to obtain 

 the seed of oriental, but particularly Chinese, species, which he is pre- 

 pared to furnish at reasonable rates. 



The Bilfnwrcau, the magazine of the members of the Biltmore Forest 

 School, contains in a combined issue of September and December, 1918. 

 a list of the Biltmore men who were in military service. Eighty-one 

 names are included, but it is stated that there probably should be more 

 additions. 



Capt. H. P. Baker has returned to Syracuse and again taken up his 

 work as dean of the New York State College of Forestry. Prof. F. F. 

 Moon, who has been acting dean during Dr. Baker's absence, has been 

 granted a year's leave of absence. 



Col. John S. Dennis, C. JM. G., president of the Canadian Forestry 

 Association, has been chosen by the Canadian Government as a mem- 

 ber of the commission which has charge of the Dominion's commercial 

 interests in Russia. 



The cost of fighting fires in the three eastern associations of Que- 

 bec — the St. Alaurice, the Laurentide, and the Southern St. Lawrence — 

 was only $2,000 in 1918, as against $15,000 in earlier seasons. 



Prof. R. C. Bryant resumes his work at Yale with the opening of 

 the second term and will, as usual, have charge of the senior work of 

 the South. 



An interim forest authority has been appointed to make preliminary 

 arrangements for developing aitorestation in the United Kingdom. 



T. S. Zschokke is chief of the division of forest management of the 

 Philippine Bureau of Forestry at Manila. 



Dr. H. X. Whitford, of the Yale Forest School, returned in October 

 from a five months* trip to Brazil. 



