234 Forestry Quarterly. 



Mr. Allen was notably equipped for taking up the difficult work 

 of the organization of a new office, by years of varied experience as 

 an Inspector in the Forest Service, his work having taken him 

 through most of the forested country and forest reserves of the west- 

 ern states. He left the California work, to which he has given such 

 vigorous impetus, to re-enter the Service as resident inspector of the 

 forest reserves in the states of Oregon and Washington. 



His successor in the position of State Forester, Mr. Lull, is a 

 graduate of the New York State College of Forestry and has for 

 some 3'^ears been a member of the Forest Service, active in important 

 work undertaken in several sections of the country. While a mem- 

 ber of the Service he was identified with the office of Forest Exten- 

 sion and ranked as an Assistant Inspector in the work of that sec- 

 tion. His experience in California has given him a wide acquain- 

 tance with the people of the State and with California conditions, 

 which will be an especial advantage to him in his new position. The 

 State is fortunate in so promptly securing, as successor to Mr. Allen, 

 a man so able and so well equipped to maintain the high standard 

 of the Forester's office. 



Under the laws providing for the office of State Forester, the 

 appointment of two assistants to him is authorized. Mr. Allen dur- 

 ing his term of office had secured the services of Raymond Tyler, 

 formerly a member of the Forest Service connected with the admin- 

 istration of the Sierra and Tahoe forest reserves in the State. Since 

 Mr. Lull's advent a second Assistant State Forester has been ap- 

 pointed in the person of Charles H. Sellers. ]\Ir. Sellers was also 

 for some years a member of the Forest Service, having varied exper- 

 ience in the field work in many of the forest regions of the country 

 and especially in the State of California. 



California's Forest Service, now entering upon its second year, 

 has a personnel which promises rapid progress for forestry in a 

 State notable for enlightened interest in this profession. 



S. J. F. 



Another State forest service to have a change in its administra- 

 tion is that of Massachusetts. Alfred Akerman, who has been State 

 Forester since the creation of the office in IQOi, has gone to the 

 University of Georgia, where he will have charge of the courses 

 in forestry. 



Ralph C. Hawley, who was Assistant State Forester of Massa- 

 chusetts, also takes up teaching, having accepted a position as in- 

 structor in the Yale Forest School. 



