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tributing plant material and information as to its use free of 

 charge. 



Undoubtedly the Nestor of our profession, the Oberforstin- 

 spektor of the Swiss Federation, Dr. J. Coaz, retired from ac- 

 tive service on April 30 of this year, at the ripe age of over 90 

 years. A service of 63 years, in various capacities, lies behind 

 him, 40 years of which (since 1874) he has' been the head of the 

 Swiss forest service. More than that! He has been the cr- 

 organizer of that service from its beginning, and was the fore- 

 most propagandist in securing its inauguration — the federal super- 

 vision of all forest services of Switzerland. 



In an endeavor to get the public interested in the preservation 

 of our native forests, as far as can be done without loss to the 

 owners, and the establishment of forest plantings on all land that 

 is not suitable for successful farming, the State Board of For- 

 estry of Minnesota has this year and last year offered to public 

 school pupils money prizes for essays on forest influences, the fol- 

 lowing being the order required : Relation to rainfall, to tempera- 

 ture, to animal life, to industries, and to sanitation. 



Mr. John S. Bates, B. A., B. Sc, one of the foremost authori- 

 ties on wood pulp manufacture in America, has been appointed 

 Superintendent of the Forest Products Laboratories, McGill Uni- 

 versity, Montreal. 



Mr. John Appleton, Yale '04, died on April 2, at Bangor, Me. 



Mr. Appleton was two years in the U. S. Forest Service, after 

 which he began private practice as a consulting forest engineer 

 at Bangor, being associated with Mr. B. S. Viles, and later with 

 Mr. J. W. Sewall. Besides mapping and estimating large areas 

 of trmberland, he organized a tree surgery department with head- 

 quarters later in New York. The work on the Yale and Bowdoin 

 campus was done under his direction. 



