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them in force forest officers would not be able to make certain read- 

 justments and allotments which the present situation with reference to 

 meat production may require. 



The Division of Forestry of the University of California has moved 

 into its new quarters in the recently completed Hilgard Hall, which is 

 one of the buildings of the agricultural group. Hilgard Hall is a very 

 large building, housing several divisions of the College of Agriculture. 

 The Division of Forestry has ample quarters consisting of 22 rooms, 

 most of which are very completely equipped. The rooms include a 

 class-room, a large general laboratory for all undergraduate courses, 

 three special research laboratories for forest utilization and wood tech- 

 nology, three small special laboratories for advanced students in other 

 branches of forestry, a large logging engineering laboratory, drafting 

 room, blue-print room, instrument room, herbarium room, lecture dem- 

 onstration materials room, store room, club room, and six offices. 



Two unique features of the equipment are the logging engineering 

 room and the herbarium room. In the former various kinds of logging 

 engines and machinery will be demonstrated by working models run by 

 small motors. In the center of the room is a heavy plank floor above 

 the regular concrete floor, on which the classes will get practice in rig- 

 ging up working models of various cable systems and other logging de- 

 vices. The herbarium room contains not only standard steel herbarium 

 cases, but a long series of special display cabinets for 103 of the leading 

 timber species of North America. To each species is devoted one entire 

 vertical row of four compartments, protected by glass doors, in which 

 are shown the flowers, seed, fruit, seedlings, and foliage in Riker 

 mounts, and specimens of the lumber and bark. On a display space 

 above the compartments are placed a map of the distribution of the 

 species and a brief statement of the properties and uses of the lumber. 

 Below the compartments are drawers for extra fruit and wood speci- 

 mens. The classes will have free access to this collection for their 

 dendrological work. 



Notice has been received of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the 

 American Wood-Preservers' Association, scheduled for January 22 to 

 24, 19 18, at the Hotel Sherman, in Chicago. A number of interesting 

 and valuable papers will be presented and the meeting should prove 

 profitable to those who are interested in the subject. 



