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each year. His papers on "Bird Dissemination of Juniper 

 Seed," and "Hail Injury to Forest Trees" are unique and excel- 

 lent pieces of obserVational work. His "Study of Pinyon Pine," 

 published in the Botanical Gazette," is a fine type of dendorlogical 

 study. He was associated with Dr. Fernow as one of the contrib- 

 uting editors of the "Forestry Quarterly," and had in mind the 

 establishment of a "Planting Magazine." At the time of his 

 demise he had in preparation several articles, including one on 

 the trees of the Mexican boundary. A very interesting note on 

 branchless conifers has appeared posthumously in the "Plant 

 World." During the summer of 1910, the writer had the pleas- 

 ure and inspiration of being associated with him for six weeks 

 in the field in southern Arizona. One day his sharp eyes detected 

 mistletoe growing upon whiteleaf oak, a fact fori which the 

 writer had been looking in vain for some three years. He had a 

 remarkable capacity for assimilating the facts of nature in gen- 

 eral, and those bearing upon his specialty in particular. His en- 

 thusiasm was inspiring, his avidity to look and learn boundless, 

 his keen eye perspicuous and probing for the best of things. 



One of his finest characteristics as a forester was his breadth 

 of view. While ever loyal and strenuous to the last degree to 

 attain the immediately practical results that in the minds of some 

 are the only measure of success, he had boundless admiration for 

 related branches of scientific inquiry, whose practical application 

 does not always lie on the surface, but which in the course of time 

 are often fraught with unforeseen and incalculable value. As 

 Professor Peirce has recently well said: "From the beginning, 

 the study of plants in this country has been strongly influenced 

 by the requirements of its inhabitants." He might have added, 

 and by the ultra-materialistic American habit of mind. "Pure 

 science has found scant support and still less understanding 

 sympathy. We may deplore the fact, but we must recognize its 

 adequate and persisting cause." While this is only too true, 

 future progress in forest work in this country must lie along 

 the lines of greater breadth and deeper foundations, a necessity 

 that is gradually coming to be recognized, and is already taking 

 concrete form in the establishment of thorough research work 

 and permanent experiment stations. Professor Phillips was a 

 live and enthusiastic exponent of this movement. 



