PERSONAL 



I. Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada 



E. A. Sterling has resigned as manager of the trade extension department of 

 the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association to take the position of manager 

 of the new eastern office of James D. Lacey and Company, at 30 E. 42d street. 

 Mr. Sterling will also take up some of his former consulting practice as part of 

 the activities of this eastern office. 



Dr. C. D. Howe, of the Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, this past 

 summer has been investigating for the Commission of Conservation of Canada 

 the extent to which cut-over pulpwood lands are reproducing valuable species in 

 potentially commercial quantities, the effect of fire on reproduction, and other 

 questions having reference to the reasonable expectation of another crop. The 

 work was done in co-operation with the Forester of the Laurentide Company, 

 Mr. Ellwood Wilson. 



P. Z. Caverhill has resigned his position as Director of the New Brunswick 

 Government Forestry Survey to take a position with the head office staff of the 



B. C. Forest Branch. Mr. G. H. Prince, who was Mr. Caverhill's assistant in 

 the New Brunswick work, has succeeded him as director. 



Prof. Samuel N. Spring, of Cornell University, has been appointed as lecturer 

 at the Yale Forest School for the fall term. He will give the course in forest 

 management. 



Arnold Hansson, Yale Forest School 1917, has resigned from the Laurentide 

 Company and entered the Medical Corps of the Canadian Army. 



Director James W. Toumey, of the Yale School of Forestry, visited the various 

 Forest Experiment Stations in the West during the summer. 



Bristow Adams has been assisting in the food administrator's office in Wash- 

 ington during the summer. 



The following men attended the meeting of the Association of Eastern For- 

 esters at Bluff Point, N. Y., July 11-13: Filibert Roth, R. S. Hosmer, F. W. 

 Besley, K. W. Woodward, R. C. Bryant, E. W. Graves, J. M. Briscoe, H. O. 

 Cook, W. G. Howard, H. R. Bristol, F. F. Moon, S. N. Spring, C. R. Pettis, 



C. A. Davis, P. W. Ayres, B. A. Chandler, R. M. Ross, A. F. Hawes, R. G. Bird, 

 C. P. Wilber, F. W. Rane, A. E. Moss, V. A. Beede, R. C. Hawley, E. G. 

 Cheyney, A. B. Hastings, and A. B. Recknagel. Pettis and Roth also inspected 

 the Axton plantations and cuttings. 



2. Central United States 



Ovid M. Butler, hitherto Assistant District Forester at Albuquerque, N. Mex., 

 has been appointed as Assistant Director of the Forest Laboratory at Madison, 

 Wis. 



R. S. Kellogg, Secretary of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, 

 lectured before the summer school of Cornell Univei-sity. He said : ''The various 

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