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oratory staff at McGill University, being in charge, with several assis- 

 tant. The laboratory was primarily established as a war measure for 

 the testing of airplane spruce at the place of production. The labora- 

 tory staff at McGill having almost been depleted, owing to the war, 

 an arrangement was made to ship its entire equipment to British Colum- 

 bia, thus advancing the work by the many months it would have taken 

 to secure new machinery. If it is decided to discontinue the test of 

 spruce, the laboratory will make a comprehensive study of Douglas 

 fir in structural dimensions. The tests made at the laboratory cover 

 bending, impact bending, compression parallel to grain, compression 

 perpendicular to grain, hardness, shearing parallel to grain, cleavage, 

 tension perpendicular to grain, etc. 



Abraham Gustaf Theodor De Broen, the dean of Swedish foresters, 

 died on December 7, 1918, at the age of 88. His work was for the most 

 part in the southern part of Sweden, not far from Stockholm, in one 

 of the most productive regions in the country. He was especially noted 

 for his success in securing satisfactory reproduction, both natural and 

 artificial, and in this respect is said to be equalled by few Swedish for- 

 esters of the present day. He did not, however, appreciate the im- 

 portance of cultural measures in the stand after its establishment, and 

 once remarked to the Director of the Swedish State Forest Experiment 

 Station, in regard to a sample plot that had been thinned three times 

 in 12 years, that if he continued much further in that way he would 

 have nothing left but a stand of seed trees. De Broen was unusually 

 fond of the chase and was famed as a mighty hunter of great physical 

 prowess. 



The Reliance Lumber Company, of Seattle, was tried in the U. S. 

 District Court for the Western District of Washington this spring for 

 a fire trespass in 1917, starting from a donkey engine crossing from 

 private lands over the Rainier National Forest boundary. The court 

 rendered a verdict in favor of the Government of $685.87. the cost of 

 fighting this fire and putting it under control, there being some con- 

 flict of testimony as to the real value of the timber and undergrowth 

 destroyed (valued at $248.91) and whether they were both actually 

 destroyed by this fire. 



The Massachusetts Forestry Association has issued a pamphlet "The 

 National Parks and Forests," giving outline of another tour to take 

 place under their auspices June to September, 1919; business manager, 



