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UNIVEB8ITY OF TOBONTO MOTBS. 



DEATH or PBOr. W. B. 



The Faculty of Porwrtry h«R jfrown 

 apace until at the beginninK <>f th«) aca- 

 demic year 1010-11 just a ruuiui fifty atu- 

 dentH were registered; thiH tutal waa 

 diniiuiHhed during t4ie term hy th«< with- 

 drawal of two who followed the cailB of 

 practical life. 



The registration started ruthcr slowly, 

 many of the HtudotitH einpinyod on summer 

 work finding it (liflicult to give up their 

 employment when the session began. 



This summer employment of its students 

 is perhaps the most interesting fact about 

 the Faculty. Of the thirty-nine students 

 who had been registered the preceding 

 year, at IchhI thirty-one found orcupntion 

 in their own field, and, since five of the 

 reinaiiiing eight dropped out of the course, 

 actually only three for various reasons 

 were unemployed. The Forestry Branch 

 of the federal government employed the 

 largest number, namely, twelve, who were 

 engaged in forest surveys in the West. 



The next best employer was the Cana- 

 dian Pacific Ry. Co., which had several 

 parties out (ten Torontonians being em- 

 ployed) investigating various problems. 

 Three men were temporarily and one man 

 continuously employed by lumber com- 

 panies in estimating timber and mapping 

 timber limits, the three continuing in 

 other forest work; while the Nova Scotia 

 forest reconnaissance occupied, in addition 

 to Dr. Howe and Mr. White, members of 

 the staff, the services of three students. 



Two men sought experience in the tree 

 nurseries of the ' Pennsylvania Railroad 

 Company; a few only were employed in 

 fire ranging. 



Another feature of interest is that this 

 Faculty has attracted the attention of our 

 neighbors, three of the new students com- 

 ing from the States. 



City and Province naturally furnish the 

 principal contingent of the student body, 

 namely twonty-one and fifteen respectively. 

 New JBrunswiok and Nova Scotia furnish 

 three and two respectively, and far-away 

 Alberta and British Columbia each one. 



A novel course has been inaugurated, 

 namely, that on 'Business Law,' conduct- 

 ed in seminary style by Mr. John D. Fal- 

 conbridge, lecturer at the Law School, — 

 a course designed to produce clear legal 

 thinking and such knowledge of the prin- 

 ciples and elements of law as any educated 

 man should really possess, but especially 

 thbse that are likely to transact business. 

 The six-year course, designed to give a 

 broader education in addition to the pro- 

 fessional course, attracts only a few; yet 

 there are four men brave enough to sub- 

 mit to the longer term of education. 



Over 4,000,000 cords of pulpwood were 

 used in the United States during 1909. 



It waa with rnneb r«ffr«t that BiMBl>«r* 

 of the Canadian Forestry AaaoeiatioD 

 learned of the death of Mr. Wm. K. 

 Fisher, M.A., Assistant Profssaor of For> 

 ostry at Oxford University, which tooh 

 place on Nov. IStb last, at the aga of 

 sixty-four. A native of Sydney, nTS.W., 

 .Mr. Fisher was educated at St. Jobn't 

 College, Cambridge, taking bis degre« of 

 H.A. with mathematical boBors la 1867. 

 From 1869 to 1889 be served in the In- 

 dian Forest 8enie«, attaining the ranh 

 of Conservator of Forests. He was editor 

 of the Indian Forester from 1881 to 1889, 

 was president of the Royal Engllsb Ar- 

 boricultoral Society in liKM, and served oo 

 several parliamentary committees on for- 

 estry, lie was a member of the staff of 

 the Royal Indian Engineering College at 

 Cooper's Hill for several years, and, wbaa 

 the staff of the School of Forestry was 

 transferred to Oxford, became Assistant 

 Professor of Forestry there. He is well 

 known for his numerous writings on fores- 

 try subjects, especially as assisting Prof. 

 Schlich in hii 'Manual' of Fore>4trv.' 



THE STATES AND THE NATIONAL 

 FORESTS. 



Of the entire revenue recoi the 



National Forests of the i ttes 



twenty-five per cent, goes to tne -itnte in 

 which the particular reserve is sitoatsd, 

 to be spent for school and road parposss. 

 The several sUtes thus received, for th« 

 fiscal year ending Jons 80, 1910, the sum 

 of $506,200, an increase of (67,500, or a 

 little over fifteen per cent, over tbs 

 amount received for the preceding year. 

 The payments are designsd aa an offset 

 to the loss of income sustained by tbs stats 

 through the withdrawal of the forest land 

 from entry under the public land laws. 



THE FABMEB'8 PLANTATION. 



The above is the title of a bnlletin 

 written by Mr. A. Mitchell, of tbs Forest 

 Xursery SUtion, Indian Head, Sask., and 

 lately issned by the Forestry Branch as 

 its Bulletin No. 10. It applisa particnlarlv 

 to conditions on tbs pralriss. Among the 

 questions taken up are the planning of the 

 plantation, preparation for planting and 

 the actual operation of planting and tbs 

 care of plantations after planting. Undsr 

 the latter head the matter of pruning and 

 thinning have fall attention. Tbs balls- 

 tin is illastrated with tbirtsea half-tons 

 sngravinga. Copiss of it nay be obtain- 

 ed by addrsssing R. H. Campbell, Sapsr- 

 intendent of Forsstty, Ottawa. 



