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Nancy, where he was greatly beloved. He was especially interested in 

 applied mathematics and in the restoration of a forest cover in the 

 mountains. While he wrote several treatises on mathematics and top- 

 ographical surveying, he is especially well known in this country for 

 his work on the restoration of the mountains, correction of torrents, 

 and reforestation. He was retired from active service in 191 1, but 

 retained his physical and intellectual powers and continued to take a 

 keen interest in the work of the profession until his death. 



Eighty acres of virgin soil, much of it covered with timber, has been 

 offered Michigan City, Indiana, for a war memorial park by Martin 

 T. Krueger, former Mayor of the city. The proposal was made to the 

 Chamber of Commerce of the city, and was unanimously accepted. In 

 writing of the park former Mayor Krueger said : "This land is beau- 

 tifully located; its virgin soil has never been touched by spade or plow, 

 and is covered by a growth of white pine, white, red and yellow oak, 

 maple, sycamore, poplar, cherry, elm, and basswood, and thickly set in 

 spots with flowering shrubs, as dogwood and witch-hazel, and festooned 

 with great spreading and sprawling grapevines. The land is rolling, 

 well drained and free from every objectionable growth or feature." 



Egypt produces rice straw, papyrus, and other fibers which might 

 well serve for the manufacture of paper. Experiments have been made 

 with rice straw, and one variety of papyrus, called Bourdy, which grows 

 on a large scale in the lake district of the Delta. No useful result has 

 been obtained with the latter, which it appears does not possesss the 

 qualities necessary for paper making. As regards rice straw, the 

 experiments have been more satisfactory, and some good, practical 

 results might be obtained. Egypt imported before the war annually 

 about 25,000 tons of paper of all varieties. The quantity of rice-straw 

 available is very considerable, some 250,000 to 300,000 feddans, pro- 

 ducing 350,000 tons of rice, are annually cultivated, but the whole 

 question is a highly technical one and requires very deep and extensive 

 inquiry. It is understood that the matter is receiving the close at- 

 tention of the Anglo-Egyptian authorities in all its aspects. There al- 

 ready exists a paper factory in Alexandria. 



The new wood-testing laboratory of British Columbia, housed in a 

 specially constructed building at the Provincial University, is now in 

 operation. L. L. Brown, a former member of the Forest Products Lab- 



