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Further changes affecting education in forestry are the resigna- 

 tion of J. Fred Baker from the Pennsylvania State Forest Academy, 

 at Mont Alto, and his appointment as instructor in Colorado Col- 

 lege, at Colorado Springs. 



The faculty at Mont Alto is now composed of State Forester 

 Wirt and John P. Wentling and Edwin A. Ziegler, the two latter 

 having been Forest Assistants in the Forest Service. Messrs. Went- 

 ling and Ziegler are graduates of Franklin and JNIarshall College, 

 and acquired an extended acquaintance with the forest conditions 

 and problems throughout the country while in the Government ser- 

 vice. 



A third Forest Assistant to recently leave the Forest Service and 

 take up teaching is Benton Mac Kay e, who has been appointed an 

 instructor in forestry at Harvard University. Mr. MacKaye grad- 

 uated from Harvard in 1905 and saw his Government service in New 

 Hampshire. 



Messrs. Chapman and Rothkugel, whose employment by the E. P. 

 Burton Company was noted in Forestry Quarterly, Vol. Ill, No. 

 2, p. 222, have given up their work in South Carolina on account of 

 ill health induced by conditions there. Mr. Chapman re-entered the 

 Forest Service and will continue to direct the execution of the work- 

 ing plan he made for the Cooper River Holdings. Mr. Rothkugel 

 is now with George Craig & Sons, manufacturers of Hemlock, 

 Spruce and hardwood lumber at Winterburn, West Virginia. 



W. B. Piper, Yale, 1905, a Forest Assistant in the Forest Service, 

 has been detailed as Forester to the Delaware and Hudson Railroad 

 Company. The Forest Service prepared a working plan for the 

 holdings of the above company in the Northern Adirondacks, New 

 York, during 1905 and Mr. Piper will put into effect the recommend- 

 ations made in the plan. During the present year the company are 

 cutting fire-killed timber, but later the tract will be jDlaced under 

 more intensive management and green timber will be removed under 

 the direction of the forester. 



Thomas Elmer Will, former Professor of Economics at the Kan- 

 sas State Agricultural College and later President of the same in- 

 stitution, has been appointed Secretary of the American Forestry 

 Association. Prof. Will assumed the duties of his new office on Sep- 

 tember 1. His appointment to this important position has been 

 received with much satisfaction by the members of the Association 



