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ment. In October, the Amos Tuck School of Finance and Ad- 

 ministration of Dartmouth College held a conference on scien- 

 tific management at Hanover, N. H., which was attended by the 

 leading exponents of scientific management in America and by 

 some two hundred prominent manufacturers in New England. 

 Among the various subjects discussed was one on the management 

 of timber properties and lumbering by W. R. Brown, of the Ber- 

 lin Mills Co. Informal addresses were also made by visiting 

 foresters and lumbermen. 



A reunion of the alumni of the Yale Forest School is to be 

 held in New Haven on December 20 and 21, 191 1. A brief pro- 

 gram, class smokers and a banquet will comprise the chief fea- 

 tures of the entertainment. Although the number of forest school 

 alumni is comparatively small and they are scattered throughout 

 the United States, the attendance, from present indications, prom- 

 ises to be surprisingly large. 



Mr. Nelson C. Brown, Deputy Supervisor on the Kaniksu 

 National Forest in Idaho has accepted the position of Assistant 

 Professor of Forestry at the Iowa State College, at Ames. Mr. 

 Brown received his collegiate training at Yale, graduating in 1906. 

 He immediately took up graduate work in the Yale Forest School 

 and in 1908 received the degree of Master of Forestry. 



It is reported that Jas. O. Hazard, Yale Forest School '10, has 

 been appointed assistant to Alfred Gaskill, State Forester of New 

 Jersey, to have charge of shade tree work. 



An interesting publication by the Department of Commerce 

 shows the progrees of the United States — changes of conditions 

 during the century — "in its material resources" from 1800-1911. 

 It does so, however, only as far as financial changes express it. 

 The population has grown from 51-3 million to 93! million (at 

 the rate of 2| per cent, annually) ; the public debt advanced from 

 $83 million through $2,675 million in 1865, to $1,015 million in 

 191 1, a gratifying reduction per capita from $15.63 to $10.83. 

 Money in circulation advanced from $4.99 to $34-35 (less than 

 2% annually.) Bank depositors have increased since 1820 from 

 9,000 to over 9 million ; deposits from 2 billion dollars in 1875 to 

 15 billion in 1910 (Government receipts, from $2.04 per capita 



