FRANK J. PHILLIPS. 

 An Appreciation.* 



When American forestry lost Frank Jay Phillips it lost one of 

 its rising beacon lights. Alas for the futility of our hopes ! For 

 one brief moment, like a brilliant falling star under the desert 

 sky, his life flashed across the heavens of our science, and was 

 gone. But the afterglow is with us still. It will be with us for 

 years to come. It can never be entirely effaced, but will live on 

 and on, though mayhap receiving new auroral coloring from 

 other minds and souls, to generations yet unbortn. 



Born and reared in the forests of Michigan, thoroughly 

 grounded in the problems of the farm and the woodlot at the 

 Michigan Agricultural College, his training was carried to a high 

 standard of completion in the forestry courlses of the University 

 of Michigan. Ever striving for a higher mark, however, he pur- 

 sued work for a doctor's degree, and had intended to go abroad 

 this present summer to carry on his forestry studies. He was 

 also a leader in other lines, holding some excellent track records, 

 and winning a high place in inter-collegiate oratory. After a 

 period of hard and effective work in the United States service, 

 covering many states, he was called to the head of the forestry 

 department in the University of Nebraska, which position he held 

 on the date of his untimely end, February 12, 1911. At this time 

 he had been offered a position on the forestry faculty at Ann Ar- 

 bor. At a previous time, his powers of observation were recog- 

 nized by the offer of the position of triaveling dendrologist in the 

 forest service. Again, his capacity for organization and leader- 

 ship won high recognition by the tender of the position of chief 

 sf the Indian forest service under the national government. 



In addition to his arduous and successful labors as head of a 

 growing department in a great univerisity. Professor Phillips set 

 himself with a vim to the task of turning out original research 

 work, and it was his intention to publish at least two articles 



*Although we have printed on p. 168 a brief reference to Mr. Phillip's 

 decease, we gladly give additional space to the above appreciation of a 

 worthy member of our profession — Editor. 



