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During the last twenty years Fisher conducted a class of 

 Indian Forest probationers through some of the best forests in 

 France, and during the last few years the party accompanying 

 him was increased by many private and Colonial students, 

 as well as by Indian Forest officers on leave, several of whom 

 were able to take advantage of the perfect arrangements 

 made by Fisher to renew their acquaintance with those forests, 

 and to profit by the clear and masterly explanations given by 

 him of the latest phases of French forest science. An account 

 of these forests is appearing in the Quarlerly Journal of the 

 Royal English Arboricultural Society, of which Fisher was 

 editor-in-chief He was president of that society in 1904 and 

 1905, and was a member of the Departmental Committee of the 

 Board of Agriculture for re-afforesting Ireland in 1907-08. 



Fisher was the author of vols. iv. and v. of Schlich's Manual 

 of Forestry, and contributed numerous articles on forestry and 

 allied subjects to the Land Agents' Record and other periodicals. 

 He was frequently consulted by landowners in all parts of 

 the country as to the proper management of their woodlands, 

 and, among other works, he was called in to advise the Liverpool 

 Corporation as to how they should plant up the catchment 

 area of Lake Vyrnwy in North Wales, the source of their 

 water supply. 



Fisher's untimely death will be felt as a great loss by all 

 interested in British forestry, as his wide experience and 

 training made him one of the leading authorities on the subject. 



He was a man of very simple character, and was universally 

 beloved by his students and by a large circle of friends. He 

 was liked and honoured by all ranks of the French Forest 

 Service with whom he came in contact during his class 

 excursions. A, S. 



Death of M. Broill.ard, formerly Professor at Nancy. 



On the 1 2th July last, the famous forester, Charles Broilliard, 

 died suddenly at his hom\at Morey, in the Haute Saone, France, 

 at the age of seventy-nine. ^I^J^^^rpilliard passed into the Forest 

 School of Nancy in 1851, and was top of his year. After active 

 service in various places in France, he was appointed to a pro- 

 fessorship at the Forest School in 1865. There he remained for 

 sixteen most useful years till 1881, when he became conservator, 



