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there is no hesitation in urging all 

 who can do so to attend and take 

 part. Aside from the convention it- 

 self there will be the opportunity of 

 seeing Winnipeg and the Central 

 West under the best conditions. 



Make up your mind to come and 

 notify the Secretary of this fact. 



OBITUARY. 



The Canadian Forestry Journal has this 

 month to chronicle the sad news of the 

 death of two of its oldest members — Dr. 

 G. U. Hay of St. John, N.B., and Mr. 

 Maurice Quinn of Saginaw, Mich. 

 Dr. Hay. 



Dr. Hay was known for many years as 

 one of the educational leaders of Eastern 

 Canada. His home was at St. John, N. B., 

 where he had been successively teacher, 

 Superintendent of Education for the Pro- 

 vince, and Editor of the Educational Re- 

 view. Never a very robust man he had not 

 only lived out the appointed three score 

 years and ten but had also accomplished 

 more than most men of robust physique. 

 He was a member of many learned societ- 

 ies and was specially devoted to the study 

 of nature. Many years ago he became 

 convinced of the need of forest conserva- 

 tion and was one of the earliest members 

 of the Canadian Forestry Association. He 

 continued closely identified with its work 

 up to the time of his death. Dr. Hay was 

 particularly active in the work of arrang- 

 ing for the forestry convention in Freder- 

 icton in 1910, and the success of that con- 

 vention was due in no small measure to 

 the assistance which he gave the Secretary 

 and the program committee. In the pages 

 of the Educational Review he devoted a 

 great deal of space to judiciously bringing 

 before the teachers of the Maritime Pro- 

 vinces the need of forest conservation and 

 the incalculable loss which the country 

 would sustain in every way should its for- 

 ests disappear. His death leaves a sad 

 gap in the ranks of the foremost leaders 

 in Eastern Canada. 



Mr. Maurice Quinn. 

 Of an entirely diflferent type was Mr. 

 Maurice Quinn of Saginaw who died sud- 

 denly on May 2',i when on a visit to New 

 York. Mr. Quinn was born in the Province 

 of Quebec and lumbered in that province 

 and in Ontario before moving to Michi- 

 gan. Here he had a most successful career 

 as a lumberman, and later acquired limits 

 in the big timber at Alberni, B. C. Strong 

 and sturdy, Mr. Quinn was the embodiment 

 of the active, shrewd, kindly race of men 

 who have developed the lumber business 

 under conditions of difficulty in regard to 

 transportation and markets. He was not 



a theorist as that term is usually under- 

 stood, but the rugged native eloquence 

 with which he warned those who attended 

 the British Columbia convention of the 

 danger that lay before British Columbia 

 unless she handled her forests better than 

 had Michigan, showed how deeply the 

 practical teachings of conservation had 

 sunk into his mind. He told of how men 

 had laughed at him when he talked of con- 

 servation when he went to Michigan thirty 

 years ago, and how he had lived to see 

 one great river, from which billions, of 

 feet of timber had been cut, become en- 

 tirely denuded so that today not a log 

 floats upon it. In his practical way Mr. 

 Quinn was a strong worker for conserva- 

 tion, and his loss will be keenly felt by 

 supporters of the cause. 



WOOD PRODUCTS LABORATORY. 



Important Step Taken by the Government 

 of Canada. 



The Dominion Government has decided 

 to institute a new department in connec- 

 tion with the Forestry Branch which will 

 undertake the work of investigating the 

 possibilities of conserving our forests by 

 reducing waste in manufacture, by pro- 

 longing the life of forest products used in 

 construction, and developing uses for pro- 

 ducts now wasted for the lack of knowl- 

 edge as to how they may be employed. 



To take charge of this work Hon. W. J. 

 Roche, Minister of Interior, has selected 

 Mr. A. G. Mclntyre, at present editor of 

 the Pulp and Paper Magazine and acting 

 secretary of the Pulp and Paper Associa- 

 tion. Mr. Mclntyre is a graduate of Ac- 

 adia University, and he also graduated 

 from McGill University in chemical en- 

 gineering. He was chemical engineer of 

 the Jonquiere Pulp Company where he had 

 charge of the water power, water dis- 

 charge measurements, etc., and he put in 

 a bleaching system of his own design sav- 

 ing in the value of the paper. He was 

 also engineer in charge of construction for 

 Price Bros, at Kenogami, Quebec, and did 

 the investigation for the new sulphite mill. 

 His special qualifications for the work 

 should assure the successful carrying out 

 of the project. The work will be carried 

 on at present in co-operation with McGill 

 l^niversity. 



The various classes of investigation to 

 be carried out will be as follows: Wood 

 tests, timber physics, wood preservation, 

 wood distillation and wood pulp. This is 

 an advanced step on the part of the de- 

 partment of the interior. The Forestry 

 Branch is one in which Dr. Roche has been 

 particularly interested and this new step 

 is along the lines of modern scientific for- 

 estry work in Germany and other Euro- 

 pean countries. — Ottawa Citizen. 



