i82 Forestry Quarterly. 



prises 26 pages and includes the most noteworthy advances that 

 have been made since 1776. 



The fifth annual convention of the Michigan Forestry Associa- 

 tion was held at Kalamazoo, November 16. The following offi- 

 cers were elected : President, Charles W. Garfield, Grand Rapids ; 

 vice-president, John H. Bissell, Detroit ; Secretary, Filibert Roth, 

 Ann Arbor; treasurer, W. B. Mershon, Saginaw. 



A new department of woods and forestry has been established 

 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City 

 with Miss Mary C. Dickerson in charge. 



A bill to create a Bureau of National Parks is before Congress, 

 for the purpose of concentrating the "supervision, management 

 and control of the several national parks and national monuments, 

 etc." 



Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, has been offered 

 ten thousand acres of wild land for forestry demonstration pur- 

 poses by Joseph Battell. 



Last autumn the Province of Quebec opened its new School 

 of Forestry which is affiliated with Laval University. Students 

 are admitted only after one year of training in the woods under 

 the direction of the Department of Lands and Forests. 



At a meeting in Washington on January 13 an Association of 

 Eastern Foresters was formed for the furtherance of forest work 

 in that section. Alfred Gaskill, State Forester of New Jersey, 

 was chosen Secretary, the only officer, and a constitution was 

 adopted, limiting the membership to forest officials and forest 

 (?) instructors attached to universities or State schools of for- 

 estry in the New England and North Atlantic States, including 

 Maryland. Other professional foresters may also be elected. 



A conservation association has been organized in Georgia with 

 Judge John C. Hart as president. The policy will be to protect 

 forests at the headwaters of streams and useless destruction of 



