n6 Forestry Quarterly. 



The class will remain on the holdings of the Thompson Brothers 

 Lumber Company until the middle of June, when camp will be 

 broken and a committee of students will return to New Haven 

 to represent the class at the University Commencement. The re- 

 mainder of the class will scatter to various parts of the country 

 for a short vacation. About July i the students will enter the 

 employ of the U. S. Forest Service, State Forest Commissions and 

 lumber companies or engage in private forest work. 



The instruction in surveying, mapping and timber estimating 

 will be in charge of H. H. Chapman, and the study of the log- 

 ging and manufacturing methods in charge of R. C. Bryant, both 

 members of the faculty of the Forest School. 



In addition to the regular instruction there will be a number 

 of special lectures by prominent lumbermen. Among the latter 

 are Mr. Thompson, who will spend some time in the camp with 

 the students and will give a number of talks on subjects relating 

 to the lumber business, and Mr. George K. Smith, Secretary of 

 the Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association, who for the past 

 two years has addressed the students on the subject of lumber 

 associations, market conditions, etc. 



The Forest Conservation Committee, of the Yellow Pine Manu- 

 facturers' Association, J. B. White, Chairman, Kansas City ; J. L. 

 Kaul, Birmingham ; J. A. Freeman, St. Louis ; J. Lewis Thomp- 

 son, Huston, Texas ; P. S. Gardiner, Laurel, Miss. ; will hold 

 a meeting at the Yale Forest School Camp, Tyler Co., Texas, 

 some time during the coming spring. 



Professor H. P. Baker, who is in charge of the Department 

 of Forestry at Pennsylvania State College, has asked for leave 

 of absence from July ist, 1909, to December 31st, 1910, in order 

 to take up a course of study abroad. Professor Baker plans to 

 take two or three semesters' work at Munich, and spend six 

 months on the return trip via India, the Philippines, and Japan. 



Mr. Samuel N. Spring resigned from his position as Chief of 

 the Office of Extension in the Forest Service on February ist, to 

 take up work as a consulting forester. Mr. Spring has had wide 

 experience, particularly in the management of nurseries and the 

 reforestation of open lands, and is well fitted to undertake this 

 kind of work for private landowners. It is unfortunate that de- 



