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of State forestry. Others are employed in private forestry. A large 

 part of the current literature dealing with American forestry and a 

 majority of the manuals and text books on this subject have been 

 written by Yale men. 



More than forty foreigners have received instruction and they are 

 coming in recent years in increasing numbers. Yale foresters are 

 today practicing their profession on every continent. The record 

 made by them in twenty years is a commendable one and reaches not 

 only into every nook and corner of this country, but into many other 

 parts of the world as well. 



The first reunion of Yale foresters was a notable event. The 

 forthcoming reunion, drawing as it will upon twice as large a body of 

 men and upon men of larger and wider experience, will make the 

 occasion long to be remembered, an occasion not only of vast and far- 

 reaching importance to the school, but to American forestry as well. 



J. W. T. 



The Missoula Section 



Elers Koch, President of the Missoula Section, and for two years 

 forest fire expert in the district forester's office, has recently been 

 promoted to the position of assistant district forester in the branch 

 of Forest Management. Mr. Koch entered the Forest Service in 

 1903 upon graduation from the Yale Forest School, whither he went 

 after his graduation from Montana State University. In the Forest 

 Service he occupied the position of student assistant and forest in- 

 spector up to 1908, when he became supervisor of the Lolo National 

 Forest, which position he held for about ten years. 



G. C. Cheyne, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Burma, Malay Pen- 

 insula, was informally entertained at dinner by the local section of 

 the Society of American Foresters, at the conclusion of a three-days' 

 visit to the logging engineering branch of the office of the Forest 

 Management in the district organization. Mr. Cheyne held the atten- 

 tion of his hosts for several hours with descriptions of very many 

 phases of forestry work in Burma. It is noteworthy that although the 

 settings and details may vary enormously from forestry work in this 

 country, yet the fundamental problems in Burma, especially in adminis- 

 tration and organization, are closely parallel to those in the Federal 

 Forest Service of the United States. 



