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specifications show the new tire follows in every detail the prin- 

 ciple of the pneumatic tire, having an inner and an outer tube. 

 The main material used is willow and birch fiber, but the nature 

 of the binder has not been revealed. A motor car fitted with the 

 new tires is said to have run 437 miles under adverse conditions 

 showing no signs of undue wear. According to reports a large 

 Vienna bank is financing the new enterprise. 



Mr. Abraham Knechtel, Forester to the Dominion Parks 

 Branch, died at Ottawa on December 10, 1915, after a short 

 illness, at the age of 56. He was a Canadian by birth, but be- 

 came a superintendent of schools in Michigan, From this posi- 

 tion he had the courage, when over 40 years of age and with a 

 family, to take up the study of forestry at the New York State 

 College of Forestry at Cornell University, and after graduation 

 and a short employment by the U. S. Forest Service, became in 

 1902 one of the foresters of the New York State Forest Com- 

 mission, with which he stayed until 1908, when he was called to 

 the Dominion Forestry Branch as Inspector of Forest Reserves. 

 In 1913, he transferred to the Dominion Parks Branch as For- 

 ester, which position he held when he died. 



Both in his position with the New York Commission and the 

 Dominion Branch he gave much time to propaganda of forestry 

 ideas by lectures. The first large plantation undertaken by the 

 State of New York in the Adirondacks was made under his 

 direction. 



In the June number of The Indian Forester, 1915, is given an 

 interesting critical review of H. H. Chapman's Forest Valuation. 



