506 JOURNAL OF. FORESTRY 



Augustus Stanwood, who has been credited with the invention of 

 using wood for paper manufacture, died recently in Brooklyn, New 

 York. 



One of the most noted practicing foresters, known in all parts of 

 the world. Dr. Ulrich Meister, for more than forty years manager of 

 the celebrated city forest of Ziirich, Sihlwald, died on February 3, 

 1917, in his eightieth year. The son of a forester, he grew up in the 

 woods and took naturally to the profession, one of the first to receive 

 their education at the polytechnicum in Ziirich, and then at Giessen, 

 under Gustav Heyer, whose assistant he became in editing the forestry 

 journal Allgemeine Porestund Jagdseitung. In 1859, at the age of 

 21, he became a docent at the university, but after a year and an ex- 

 tensive travel through Germany he returned to Switzerland, and at 

 the age of 26 became forest master at Zurich and a responsible member 

 of the city council, and in 1875 manager of the Sihlwald. The volume, 

 published in 1900, describing the history of the development of this 

 remarkable forest, under working plans since 1680, is a worthy memo- 

 rial of this successful forest manager. 



Wilbur R. Mattoon, formerly in investigative work in the Forest 

 Service, has been appointed to the States Relations Service work, 

 newly organized in the United States Department of Agriculture, for 

 the Southern States. Austin F. Hawes, formerly State Forester of 

 the States of Connecticut and Vermont, will conduct this work in the 

 Northern and Western States. It is probably that later men will be 

 appointed to carry on woodlot extension work in each of the important 

 woodlot States. 



Prof. H. H. Chapman, of the Yale Forest School, who has been 

 spending some time in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the past winter, left 

 about March 15 for Louisiana, where he will assume charge of the 

 annual spring field work for the senior class of the Yale School. 



