News and Notes. 455 



Forest- The whole cost of the tour from and to London is es- 

 timated at $60, and the Society gives $200 in five grants ($40j to 

 foresters and assistant foresters, who are financially unable to at- 

 tend, under certain regulations. 



The centennial celebration of the Austrian forest school at 

 Mariabrunn took place on May 8 and 9, 1913. At the same time 

 was celebrated the fortieth anniversary of its connection with the 

 High School for Soilculture, as the institute at Mariabrunn is 

 called, combining agriculture and forestry. The school started 

 as a middle school and remained so for nearly fifty years, and 

 was not very successful, as it attempted to produce "practical" 

 foresters, despising scientific basis. In 1867 it was raised to aca- 

 demic position, and Wessely became director. In 1873 the agri- 

 cultural institution in Vienna came into existence, but the amal- 

 gamation of the two not until 1875. 



An International Forestry Congress under the auspices of the 

 Touring Club of France, to which representatives came from every 

 continent on the globe and which was probably the largest For- 

 estry Congress ever held, met in Paris in June for the expressed 

 purpose of studying economic and technical forestry problems, 

 and of promoting legislative and administrative reforms in order 

 to secure the conservation of the forests, the prevention of soil 

 erosion and the reforesting of waste lands. 



Such subjects as the right of the state to regulate private forest 

 property, or to expropriate misused and denuded forest lands to 

 insure public safety from floods were discussed from an interna- 

 tional view-point. This state right has long been recognized in 

 Europe where lands on watersheds can be expropriated unless 

 managed by the owner according to strict Government regulations 

 and an adequate forest cover maintained. 



The name of the head of the Chinese Department of Agricul- 

 ture and Forestry is C. S. Chan and not Choo as reported on 

 p. 312 of our last issue. 



Frederick Dunlap, F. E. (Cornell 04), has resigned his posi- 

 tions as forest assistant in the Forest Service, physicist at the 

 Forest Products Laboratory and lecturer in forestry and forest 

 products in the University of Wisconsin to accept the professor- 

 ship of forestry in the L^niversity of Missouri. 



