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C. B. Neal has been transferred from John Day, Ore., to the District 

 office of the Forest Service at Portland. 



About a dozen employees of the British Columbia Forest Branch have 

 already enlisted for active service abroad. Among these are Deputy 

 District Forester J. B. Mitchell and Forest Assistant F. McVickar. 



A son, Edward Burgis, Jr., was born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Starr, 

 on January 8. 



C. MacFayden, formerly District Forester at Tete Jaune in British 

 Columbia, is heading a private exploration party in the Peace River 

 country. P. S. Bonney, formerly Forest Assistant at Fort George, is 

 now Acting District Forester at Tete Jaune. 



7. Hawaii, the Philippines a>nd the Orient 



D. Y. Lin, Yale Forest School, 1914, is to be connected with the pro- 

 posed Forest School at Nanking University. 



William F. Sherfesee, on January 1, was promoted to be Director of 

 the Philippine Bureau of Forestry, succeedindg Major Ahern. Sherfesee 

 graduated from the Yale Forest School in 1905. Since 1912 he has been 

 Assistant Director of the Bureau. 



Louis F. Stadtmiller has been promoted to the position of Chief of the 

 Division of Forest Management, Philippine Bureau of Forestry. 



8. Bur ope 



Dr. C. A. Schenck, who was wounded at the battle of Lodz in Poland 

 on December 15, is now fully recovered and has rejoined his regiment, 

 of which he is Lieutenant-Colonel and Adjutant. Dr. Schenck has 

 received the Iron Cross for bravery. 



Nils B. Eckbo has recently completed a brief study of the effects of 

 the war on forests and forestry in Germany. 



Gustave A. Kuhring, a graduate of the Forestry Department of the 

 University of New Brunswick, has enlisted with the Third Canadian 

 Contingent. 



9. Unclassified 



The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion, held in New York City during January, elected William B. Greeley 

 as Director for two years and re-elected E. A. Sterling and W. R. 

 Brown as Directors for three years, also re-electing Sterling as Auditor. 



