PERSONAL 675 



J. J. Levinson has severed his connection with the Park Department 

 of New York City and is now consulting landscape forester at Sea 

 Cliff, L. I. 



J. S. Kaplan, M. F., Yale Forest School, 1911, has been appointed 

 to succeed Levison as forester of the N. Y. City Park Department. 



Nelson C. Brown, professor of forest utilization, Syracuse Univer- 

 sity, has been granted leave of absence for a year. He has been ap- 

 pointed one of the foreign trade commissioners to study the possibili- 

 ties of foreign lumber markets and will probably leave for England 

 soon. 



Chapman and Woolsey are contemplating the publication, this fall, 

 of "American Forest Regulation." "It will be," writes one of the 

 authors, "something like Roth's 'Regulation,' but more Americanized, 

 perhaps." 



3. Southern United States 



Frederick H. Miller, a newly fledged ]\I. F., from Cornell, is now 

 assistant to the State Forester of Texas. 



G. Morris Taylor, a recent AI. F. from Cornell, is with the Ameri- 

 can Creosoting Company at Russell, Kentucky. 



John Foley has been elected president of the American Wood 

 Preservers' Association. 



L. Judson has left the Consolidation Coal Company at Jenkins, 

 Ky., and is now with the Northeastern Forestry Company at Cheshire, 

 Conn. 



R. V. Myers (Biltmore) has left the Consolidation Coal Company, 

 and is now cruising in Canada for J. W. Sewall. ^ 



3. Central United States 



Howard F. Weiss has resigned from the directorship of the Forest 

 Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., and accepted a position with 

 the Burgess Company of that city. 



O. L. Sponsler, of the Michigan forestry faculty, has resigned, 

 eft'ective with the close of the college year, to enter private forestry 

 work. 



Filibert Roth has been elected president of the Society of Ameri- 

 can Foresters with Wm. T. Cox as vice-president. 



W. I. Gibson leaves the Forestry Department of Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College in June to take up private work in East Lansing. 



