NOTES AND COMMENTS Vil 



The annual summer meeting of the Society for the Protection of 

 New Hampshire Forests was held this \ear at Dartmouth College, 

 Hanover, N. H., September 4 to 6. Professors Filibert Roth and J. W. 

 Tourney gave addresses. 



"The Gum Tree' is a new publication published in the interests of 

 scientific forestry and conservation in Australia. It is the official organ 

 of the Australian Forest League and is published at 57 Swanston street, 

 Melbourne. The first number gives information on Australian forests, 

 the Eucalypts of Victoria, and the Forest League. 



The New York State Forestry Association held a successful "Forest 

 Week" at the Lake Placid Club, September 4 to 8, in cooperation with 

 the New York State Conservation Commission and the Cornell and 

 Syracuse Forest Schools. Herbert S. Carpenter, H. R. Bristol, H. D. 

 House, F. F. Moon, R. S. Hosmer, A. B. Recknagel, Geo. D. Pratt, 

 and E. H. Hall gave the principal addresses dealing with forestry. 



The American Forestry Association has established an American 

 Forestry Tobacco Fund, with which to supply tobacco and other com- 

 forts to members of the forestry regiments and sawmill contingents 

 now or soon to be in France. Contributions are solicited. 



Mr. G. C. Piche, Chief of the Forest Service, Province of Quebec, 

 Quebec, Canada, wishes to get into communication with any one who 

 has copies and is willing to dispose of numbers i, 2, and 3 of Volume 

 IX of the Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters. 



