AN APPRECIATION OF DR. HEINRICH MAYR, ORDI- 

 NARY PROFESSOR OF SILVICULTURE, 

 UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH. 



On the twenty-fifth day of January last, as Dr. Mayr was 

 closing a lecture in Silviculture in the University at Munich, 

 he fell from an attack of acute heart trouble and never spoke 

 again. It was indeed in keeping with Dr. Mayr's tremendous 

 energy and constant application to his work as a forester that he 

 should die in harness. 



Dr. Mayr was born near IMunich on October 29th, 1854, his 

 father being a Forstmeister under the Bavarian Government. 

 He received his Doctor's degree in Economics in 1884 and after a 

 short period of practice became Privatdozent in the Faculty of 

 Economics in the University. In July, 1885, he came to America 

 under Commission from the Bavarian Government to study our 

 forests and report upon the trees that might be adapted for use in 

 Bavaria. From that time on he was a constant traveler, having 

 circled the globe a number of times and only a few months before 

 his death spent some little time in Scotland. From his first 

 American trip he returned through Japan, China, Java and India, 

 paying special attention to forest distribution and to studying the 

 miportant trees to determine if possible their value for planting in 

 Europe. In 1887 he returned to Japan as Professor of Forestry 

 m the University of Tokio. There he brought together the re- 

 sults of his trip to America in a book entitled "Die Waldungen von 

 Nordamerika." This book was published in 1890 and up to 

 that time was one of the best studies of American forests written 

 either in English or German. After about four years in Japan 

 Dr. Mayr returned to Germany, studying en route forest distri- 

 bution in China and Ceylon. For nearly twenty-five years Dr. 

 Mayr assisted Professor Dr. Robert Hartig in Botany and Investi- 

 gative work and during this period experimented constantly with 

 foreign tree species in Bavaria. From this long series of experi- 

 ments and from results of work in the Forest Experiment Station 

 at Grafrath, established by Dr. Mayr in 1894, and after a second 



