News and Notes 551 



calendar will be useful to botanists, especially foresters, and to 

 meteorologists, and will also have interest for intelligent observers 

 of plant growth. The botanical range of the various trees is given, 

 and a bibliography is included. 



A Canadian Research Bureau has been established, the object 

 of which is to investigate, organize and systematize our resources. 

 It will carry on a scientific investigation of the mineral, metal, 

 hydro-electrical and chemical resources of the nation and formulate 

 plans for the lessening of the waste in forests, factories, mines 

 and mills. The results of the Bureau's investigations will be sent 

 out to manufacturers, merchants and others interested, in the form 

 of bulletins. 



The Engineering Bureau of the National Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association sent out its first technical letter in May. It is 

 a discussion on creosoted wood block paving by Walter Buehler. 

 On four letter size pages the details of size, species of wood and 

 treatment with creosote are given, and the advantages of wood 

 pavement elaborated. 



It appears that Minneapolis alone has over 70 miles of block 

 street, some 14 years old. 



The Bureau of Forestry of the government of the Philippine 

 Islands has learned already the lesson which lumbermen of the 

 States are trying to drive home to every person interested in the 

 lumber industry, the necessity for accurate grading of lumber, so 

 that the consumer may secure the kind of wood exactly that he 

 orders, and not something cheaper. The Philippine government 

 proposes in the development of the industry in the forests of the 

 islands, to start right, and grade lumber carefully at the very 

 beginning of the operations, so that a fixed market may be 

 secured, and the purchaser know definitely just what he will get 

 when he orders a special kind of lumber. To assure this sort of 

 results the Forestry Department is planning to import two well 

 known lumber inspectors from the United States, men whose 

 reputations will be a guarantee of the quality of lumber they in- 

 spect wherever it may be shipped. 



The Canadian Forestry Association, through its Secretary, 

 Mr. Robson Black, has been most active in its propaganda during 



