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jVIr. Williams was elected to senior membership in the Society of 

 American Foresters, April 26, 1916. 



As an officer of the Forest Service, Mr. Williams held the utmost 

 confidence and respect of both superiors and subordinates and his loss 

 to the Government will be as keenly felt as his departure from the com- 

 munities which he served in the Idaho region. 



Ernest C. Rogers 



In the death of Ernest C. Rogers the Society of American Foresters 

 has lost a most loyal and capable member. From the time he entered 

 the Forest Service, in 191 3, until his death, in Washington, on February 

 II, Rogers had been engaged in reforestation research. He began his 

 work at the Priest River Experiment Station with but few plans and 

 precedents in American practice in forestation investigations. The 

 practice now used and the thoroughgoing plans for investigations bear 

 the marks of his early influence. He always stood firmly for a policy 

 of thoroughgoing investigation of fundamental facts, even though it 

 entailed the postponement of other urgent problems. 



A thorough and investigative student of research problems, he gave 

 largely of his time and money to improve his knowledge of the various 

 subjects bearing on reforestation. Having a working knowledge of 

 French, German, and Scandinavian languages, he followed closely the 

 forestation systems in those countries and adopted the knowledge so 

 obtained to his own work. He was a graduate of the University of 

 Minnesota, obtaining the degree of A. M. from Cornell University, and 

 had nearly completed a course of study in plant physiology in Johns 

 Hopkins University leading to the degree of Ph. D. At the time of his 

 death he was engaged at Washington, D. C., in making a bibliography 

 of European literature on forestation subjects. He had under way 

 numerous research problems at the Savenac Nursery, Haugan. Mon- 

 tana ; unfortunately, very little of his work had been completed at the 

 time of his death. His modesty was perhaps responsible for the small 

 amount of work published as the result of his studies. He was the 

 author of two articles recently submitted to the Journal of Forestry — 

 "A Preliminary Field Test of Age Classes of Western White Pine 

 Planting Stock" and "Influence of Season of Transplanting Western 

 White Pine Seedlings upon their Behavior in Nursery and Plantation.'' 



It may be said of Rogers that he had laid the cornerstone for the 

 building of a career which would have been most fruitful of results in 

 forestry had he not been prematurely called by death. 



