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rational and constructive system of forestry for the handling of these 

 lands. 



Prof. Ralph C. Bryant will give the course in forest utilization — 

 logging and milling — at Cornell this summer, vice Professor Recknagel, 

 who will be on leave of absence. Bryant is a Cornell alumnus, and his 

 presence at the Cornell summer camp in the Adirondacks will prove an 

 inspiration to the students. 



C. A. Lyford and H. E. Brinckerhoff announce, under date of April 

 10, that they have formed a partnership, under the name of Clark & 

 Lyford, for the practice of forest engineering. They will act as eastern 

 agents for Clark & Lyford, Ltd., of Vancouver. Their office is at 15 

 East Fortieth Street, New York. 



Dr. Richard H. Boerker resigned from the Forest Service in order 

 to devote the major part of his time to research in forest and plant 

 ecology. He is developing a 300-acre experiment station in the Catskill 

 Mountains, where many ecological studies are already under way. His 

 city address is No. 24 Sunnyside Court, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



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Hugh P. Baker left Syracuse on April 4 for a sabbatical year. 

 Until the middle of August he will be studying methods of adminis- 

 tration and instruction in western forestry schools and colleges. Then 

 he will travel through Japan, China, Java, India, and probably the 

 South Sea Islands, studying economic, commercial, industrial, and 

 forestry conditions, vegetation, and transportation as it applies to 

 forestry products. 



J. H. White of the forestry faculty of the University of Toronto 

 has been appointed Assistant Provincial Forester for the Province 

 of Ontario under Zavitz, but will, in addition, continue his university 

 work for the present. 



Dr. Harry P. Brown, who specialized in forest botany and wood 

 technology in Cornell and who was with the U. S. Forest Service for 

 a time as zylotomist, has been advanced from the position of assistant 

 professor of forest botany in the New York State College of Forestry 

 at Syracuse University to full professor of forest technology in charge 

 of the department of forest technology. This department will have 



