NOTES 



Our attention is called to an error in the note on page 625 of this 

 volume regarding the election of Messrs. Graves and Sargent to honor- 

 ary membership in the Scottish Arboricultural Society as the only citi- 

 zens of the United States who have received that honor. At the time 

 Mr. Graves was elected the same honor was conferred on E. C. Hirst, 

 State Forester of New Hampshire. Mr. Hirst is in charge of a battery 

 of ten sawmills in Scotland, logging for the British army, as one of the 

 units of U. S. Forest Engineers. 



How American Foresters Can Help France 



The Forest Service, through the State Department, has recently been 

 requested by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs to supply the 

 French Government with about 200 ponmds of Douglas-fir seed and 

 500 pounds of eastern white-pine seed. The Forest Service will prob- 

 ably be able to take care of the Douglas-fir seed, at least in part ; it 

 cannot, however, furnish the seed of eastern white pine. The co-oper- 

 ation of State forest organizations is therefore very much desired. 

 The State of Minnesota, through the Cloquet Experiment Station, has 

 already offered 200 pounds of white-pine seed and the State of Ver- 

 mont, through its State Forester. 50 pounds. The State Forestry Com- 

 missioner of Pennsylvania has agreed to furnish the French Govern- 

 ment 2,500,000 white-pine seedlings. Any additional proffers of seed 

 will be much appreciated by the Forest Service, and still more, I am 

 sure, by the French Government. This is one effective method which 

 United States foresters can follow in assisting France to reclaim areas 

 devastated by the war. H. S. Graves. 



Due to difficulty in securing newspaper material, the War Industries 

 Board has ruled that during the war no new newspaper shall be estab- 

 lished, and existing daily papers, since August 12, have been obliged to 

 reduce their paper consumption 15 per cent; Sunday editions, since 

 September i, 20 per cent. 



On page 632. \'ol. XVT, No. 5. Journal or Forestry, reference is 

 made to the killing of trees in India with Atlas preservative, [ohn 



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