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As organizer and director for more than 25 years of the re- 

 markable string of agricuhural experiment stations of Canada, 

 as early as 1886 he planted demonstration areas to test the be- 

 havior of different species and in different spacings under forest 

 conditions at the Central Experiment Farm at Ottawa and at all 

 stations. It was he who inaugurated the growing and distribution 

 of plant material in the prairie section, which now under the 

 Forestry Branch has reached such large dimensions. One of 

 the most interesting and, for a northern climate, most complete 

 arboreta owes him its conception and close personal attention. 

 In the remarkably sane development of the agricultural experi- 

 mental work of Canada Dr. Saunders, with rare versatility, kept 

 his hand on every detail, and unquestionably was in all matters 

 of agriculture the best informed man of Canada, and that not 

 in an amateurish but more or less specialist manner. 



With all the characteristics of efficiency, he combined a kindly 

 and gentle disposition, which made him friends wherever he 

 appeared. 



We need not recite the ephemeral honors by which the con- 

 temporaneous generation tried to distinguish him — his work will 

 live forever, and be his greatest distinction ! 



Dr. Bernard Borggreve, known by his literary activity and 

 especially by his selection method of thinning, even to American 

 foresters, died in his seventy-eigth year in April of this year. 



He was retired as Oberforstmeister. For many years he was 

 director of the forest academy at Miinden, a highly suggestive 

 teacher, but pugnacious to the extreme in literary warfare. 



Mr. R. H. Campbell, the Director of the Forestry Branch of 

 the Dominion of Canada, who attended the diamond jubilee con- 

 ference of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society at Edin- 

 burgh in July last, was made a Colonial Honorary Member of that 

 body. 



