NEWS AND NOTES. 

 E. A. Sterling, in Charge. 



The Senior Class of the Yale Forest School left New Haven 

 on April 24, for Waterville, N. H., for the field work of the 

 spring term. The work is being conducted in the Mad River 

 valley and on surrounding mountains and consists principally of 

 the preparation of a 100- foot contour map of 25,000 acres, under 

 the direction of Dr. Henry Gannett, Chief Geographer in the 

 U. S. Geological Survey. 



The class will be given work in timber-estimating and logging 

 methods by an experienced timber-cruiser and lumberman during 

 the month of May. 



The regular spring lectures on Forest Entomology will be 

 given by Dr. A. D. Hopkins, of the Bureau of Entomology, U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture, and on Fish by Dr. B. W. Ever- 

 man, of the Bureau of Fisheries, U. S. Department of Com- 

 merce and Labor. Mr. H. H. Chapman, on furlough from the 

 Forest Service, is with the class and has direct charge of the 

 work. 



As an evidence of the better understanding which is growing 

 between the lumbermen of the country and foresters, may be 

 mentioned the number of foresters who have become members of 

 the lumbermen's organization, the Concatenated Order of Hoo- 

 Hoo. The Supreme Nine of the Order of Hoo-Hoo has ruled 

 that foresters are eligible to membership. The first technical 

 foresters to be admitted to membership were : Dr. Herman von 

 Schrenk, M. Smith, Jr., R. P. Imes, and G. E. Clement. 

 These men, all of whom were then employed in the Bureau of 

 Forestry, were initiated in the spring of 1903 at St. Louis. 

 Subsequently foresters have been received into the order as fol- 

 lows : At New York City in April, 1905, J. E. Barton, J. D. 

 Gutherie, P. T. Harris, J. M. Nelson, J. H. Ramskill, A. C. 

 Ringland, and H. O. Stabler, all of whom were then members of 

 the Yale Forest School, and are at present Forest Assistants in 

 the Forest Service. In February, 1906, eleven men from the 

 Yale Forest School became members at a Concatenation held in 

 New York City. The men joining then were F. E. Ames, R. E. 



