366 Forestry Quarterly 



The forest academy at Eisenach, which had been founded in 

 1830 and had produced many noted foresters, among whom 

 Koenig and Stoetzer, has been abolished, partly due to financial 

 difficulties due to the war. In the last semester before the war, 

 of the 78 students 30 were foreigners, mostly Russians. 



H. R. MacMillan, Chief Forester of British Columbia, now 

 under temporary appointment as Dominion Trade Commissioner, 

 is expected to return to Canada in September, from his tour of the 

 world in the interest of the wider use of Canadian timber. 



The work of the British Columbia Forest Branch is being seri- 

 ously hampered through enlistments for service at the front. In 

 all, 81 members of the staff have enlisted, of whom 9 are forest 

 school graduates and 8 are forestry students. 



P. Z. Caverhill, Provincial Forester for New Brunswick, has 

 made plans for the beginning of field work, in connection with 

 the survey of Crown lands. He will be assisted by G. H. Prince 

 and H. C. Belyea, both graduates of the Forestry Department of 

 the University of New Brunswick. Prince recently resigned his 

 position as District Forester in the British Columbia Forest 

 Branch to take up this work. Belyea is now completing a grad- 

 uate course at the Yale Forest School. In addition to the work 

 of the survey parties, Prof. R. B. Miller, with some of his stu- 

 dents, will this summer make some volume and growth studies. 



The Boy Scouts' Association of Canada has made provision 

 for the issuance of a Forestry Badge, to members passing the 

 prescribed test. This is a material expansion of the previous pro- 

 vision for a Woodman's Badge. 



It is expected that the reports on the forest resources of British 

 Columbia and Saskatchewan will be completed in July. Data 

 for these reports have been in process of collection by the Com- 

 mission of Conservation during the past two to three years. Dr. 

 H. N. Whitford and R. D. Craig have been in charge of the work 

 in British Columbia, and J. C. Blumer in Saskatchewan. Close 

 cooperation has been afforded by the British Columbia Forest 

 Branch and the Dominion Forestry Branch, as well as by a large 

 number of hmit-holders and private owners. 



