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The forty-fifth edition of Gurley's Manual of surveying and 

 engineering instruments is an enlargement and improvement in 

 make-up of this excellent publication by the well-known, leading 

 firm of W. & L. E. Gurley, at Troy, N. Y. The illustrations of 

 transits in colors add much to the ease with which the details of 

 the instruments can be seen. 



Mr. C. S. Chapman has resigned his position as District For- 

 ester in the Forest Service in charge of District 6 with headquar- 

 ters at Portland, in order to accept the position of Secretary of 

 the Oregon Forest Fire Association. The position of District 

 Forester has been filled by the' appointment of Mr. George H. 

 Cecil, who formerly held the position of Associate District For- 

 ester, in the Portland office. Mr. Chapman entered the forest 

 service as a student in March, 1900, and as a forest assistant on 

 July I, 1902. He secured his technical training in forestry at 

 the Yale Forest School. Mr. Cecil entered the forest service as 

 a student assistant in the summer of 1903 and as a forest assistant 

 on July I, 1905. His technical training was secured at the Bilt- 

 more Forest School. 



Mr. W. R. Fisher, Assistant Professor of Forestry at Oxford, 

 known to American foresters by the volumes on Forest Protection 

 and on Forest Utilization of Schlech's Manual of Forestry, died 

 on November 13, 1910. Mr. Fisher was in the Indian Forest 

 Service from 1872 to 1889, during that period becoming Director 

 of the School of Forestry at Dehra Dun and Conservator of For- 

 ests of the School Circle. In 1890, on account of ill-health, he 

 left India and joined the School of Forestry at Casper's Hall, 

 coming, in 1905, with that school, to Oxford. In connection 

 with his teaching every year he conducted educational tours 

 through the European forests. He was closely identified with 

 the progress of the Royal English Arboricultural Society and the 

 place of the Society's Quarterly Journal of Forestry in forest 

 literature is due entirely to Mr. Fisher's labors. 



