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at Athens. This forest school is the only one in the Southern 

 states offering a four-year course leading to the degree of Bache- 

 lor of Science. 



Mr. James B. Berry, who has spent some time in Germany, 

 wrote interestingly this summer, under date of July 1st, as 

 follows : 



"I have just completed my first year in Germany and am very 

 well satisfied with the results. I must confess that the University 

 courses are not markedly stronger than ours at home ; yet because 

 of the "post-graduate" work, the correlation of theory and prac- 

 tice is better. I have been able to visit many of the forests of 

 Germany, and everywhere I have found much that is interesting. 

 The localization of theories, which has taken place in the past, 

 makes each locality a new study. . . . 



"Forstmeister Meister of the Sihlwald, Zurich, is just complet- 

 ing 40 years of service on one forest and is to be retired this 

 fall. I think his forest is in better condition than any I have 

 visited thus far. 



"While in Zurich I met Dr. Engler and his staff of assistants. 

 My inquiries as to the card index of international forestry de- 

 veloped the fact that the man who inaugurated the idea had left 

 Zurich, and that the present force had not had an opportunity 

 to take it up. I think the real difficulty lies in the fact that no one 

 had any conception of the enormity of the task, and that it was 

 not until after the collection of data had really started that any 

 idea was had of the amount of work necessary to carry it to a 

 successful completion. One of the assistants told me that the 

 work might be taken up again at almost any time, provided suffi- 

 cient support were forthcoming." 



On September 13, Dr. Wm. Saunders died at London, Ont., 

 ending a most useful life in his eightieth year. 



The older generation of foresters and forest reformers remem- 

 ber him as one of the early pioneers, not only in making propa- 

 danga but instituting practical measures in the direction of for- 

 estry work. In 1882, he was one of the three commissioners 

 sent by the Canadian Government to the Forestry Congress at 

 Cincinnati, who invited the Congress to meet in Montreal that 

 same year. 



