Il8 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



About a year ago Mr Robertson retired on account. of the 

 state of his health, which was unfortunately then more precarious 

 than either he or his friends appeared to realise. He died 

 very suddenly from heart failure on 28th August 19 10, at 

 Barnhill, Broughty Ferry, where he had settled on retiring 

 from Panmure. 



The LATE Mr W. R. Fisher. 



We regret to record the death, at Oxford, on Sunday the 

 13th November 1910, of Mr William R. Fisher, M.A., Brasenose 

 College, Assistant Professor of Forestry. 



Born at Sydney in February 1846, he was the son of Mr Francis 

 Fisher, Crown Solicitor, New South Wales. He was educated 

 at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took his degree 

 with mathematical honours, coming out twentieth senior optime, 

 in 1867, the year in which W. K. Clifford was second wrangler 

 and second Smith's prizeman. After that for two years he was 

 assistant master at Repton School, and in 1869 he passed as 

 probationer for the Indian Forest Department. 



Commencing his studies at Hagenau, in Alsace, he was 

 transferred together with the rest of his class, on the outbreak 

 of the Franco-German War in 1870, to St Andrews University, 

 under the superintendence as to their forest studies of the 

 late Dr Cleghorn of Stravithie. On the termination of the 

 war, Fisher and his companions (among whom were included 

 the late H. C. Hill, Inspector-General of Forests to the Govern- 

 ment of India, and D. E. Hutchins, now Conservator of Forests, 

 British East Africa) resumed their studies at the French Forest 

 School at Nancy, and finally went to India in November 1872. 



His service for the next few years was in the province of 

 Assam, under Gustav Mann, Conservator of Forests, where he 

 had to do with the formation and tending of the rubber planta- 

 tion in the Tezpur district: and in 1878, on the formation of the 

 Imperial Forest School at Dehra Dun, N. W. Provinces, he 

 was one of the two trained assistants selected by Dr Brandis 

 for work in the forests attached to the school. Here he rose 

 to be Deputy Director, and finally Officiating Director of the 

 Dehra School; and in 1890 he was appointed Assistant Professor 

 of Forestry at Coopers Hill Engineering College, a post he 

 held to the day of his death, moving with the staff to Oxford 

 in 1905. 



