144 Forestry Quarterly 



Dr. John Nisbet, forestry adviser to the Board of Agriculture 

 in Scotland, died on 30th November last. Dr. Nisbet was a 

 pioneer in forestry work in the United Kingdom, and, although 

 he was absent from 1875 to 1900 in the Indian Forest Service, 

 he was responsible for much of the present interest in forestry in 

 Great Britain. 



The news reaches us somewhat belated that one of the 

 leading foresters of Austria, Hofrat Adalbert Schififel, died in 

 March, 1914. He was well known to American readers through 

 the Forestry Quarterly^ for he was one of the fertile writers 

 whose contributions were important, especially on the field of 

 mensuration, finance and organization. It had only been two 

 years since he left the active forest service for a professorship at 

 the Austrian Forest School. A volume on Forest Finance, in 

 which he develops new ideas and methods, is promised as a 

 posthumous work. 



On February 27, there died, through heart failure, at Lincoln, 

 Nebraska, one of the Nestors of the botanical profession, Dean 

 Charles Edwin Bessey. Dr. Bessey was a botanist of note, one 

 of Dr. Asa Gray's students, and author of several botanical 

 works of educational value. As Professor of Botany, and later 

 Dean of the Agricultural College in the University of Nebraska, 

 where he officiated since 1884, and since 1909 as Dean of the 

 University, he developed not only the botanical department, but 

 was largely instrumental in establishing a strong forest school. 

 Among his writings of special interest to foresters contained in 

 the sixteen reports of the State Board of Agriculture are "Grasses 

 and Forage Plants of Nebraska; The Forest Grasses and Fungi 

 of the Great Plains and Conditions Governing Their Distribu- 

 tion ; Migration of the Bull Pine and Other Trees." 



The many students and friends of Dr. Bessey will miss his 

 genial face and discourse at the meetings of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, of which he was presi- 

 dent from 1910 to 1912. 



