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The following graduates and students of the Department of Forestry at Cornell 

 are in France as members of the Tenth Engineers (Forest) : H. B. Steer, B. S., 

 1914; M. F., 1915; W. H. Doggett, 1916; F. H. Miller, 1916; E. Frey, 1917; G. S. 

 Kephart, 1917; Edgar Myers, 1917; R. E. Perry, Jr., 1917. The four last named 

 by transfer from the Naval Reserve. 



Three Cornell foresters hold commissions as second lieutenants as the result 

 of service in training camps during the summer: G. M. Taylor, M. F., 1917; 

 Howard Tilson, B. S., 1917, and D. C. Thompson, B. S., 1917. 



2. Southern United States 



Hammond Robertson is chief lumber inspector for the Panama Canal, with 

 offices in the Audubon Building, New Orleans. 



Mrs. Mabel Beckly Millen, M. F., Cornell, '17, is in charge of the Science De- 

 partment at Alexander College, Jacksonville, Texas. 



Russell T. Gheen is with the Southern Pine Association, New Orleans, La. 



Gordon T. Markworth, Yale, '17, has been appointed Second Assistant State 

 Forester of Virginia, in place of W. B. Dunwoody, who resigned to join the 

 army. 



J. P. Kinney's new book, "The Development of Forest Law in America," is 

 just off the press of John Wiley & Sons. 



Hubbard Hastings and E. W. Colledge, two Biltmore men, are managing im- 

 portant departments of the Florida Wood Products Company, of Jacksonville, 

 Fla. 



3. Central United States 



The Hon. Simon B. Elliott, of Pennsylvania, a veteran worker for the cause 

 of forestry, died after a short illness in June, 1917. 



Prof. E. A. Ziegler, Director of the Mont Alto Forest Academy, Pennsylvania, 

 has received a commission as Captain in the Coast Artillery Officers' Reserve 

 Corps, and is serving as instructor in miHtary mapping at Fort Monroe, Va. 

 Prof. J. S. Illick has been appointed Acting Director, and Eugene Deatrick, 

 Ph. D., Cornell, has been appointed Professor of Soils at the Academy. 



Frederick Dunlap, Professor of Forestry at the University of Missouri, has 

 been commissioned to assist in recruiting the Second Forestry Regiment for 

 France, having been designated enlisting officer for the State of Missouri. 



4. Northern Rockies 



F. G. Miller is now Director of the Department of Forestry in the University 

 of Idaho, at Moscow, Idaho. He has appointed as an instructor on his staff 

 H. E. Schmelter, a recent Cornell graduate. 



R. R. Fenska has been appointed Assistant Professor of Forestry at the Uni- 

 versity of Montana. Missoula. 



5. Southwest, Including Mexico, Central and South America 



H. M. Curran and M. B. Haman have recently completed an extensive forest 

 exploration trip into the interior of Venezuela and Caraco. One result of this 



