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Association as were in town were 

 communicated with by telephone 

 and they decided to have the Asso- 

 ciation represented at the funeral 

 by the Secretary, and amongst the 

 many floral tributes Avas one from 

 the Association, bearing on a pillow 

 of roses a tiny spruce tree. 



Mount Ilermon Cemetery is a 

 beautiful, restful spot on the banks 

 of the broad St. Lawrence, just a 

 little above Wolfe's Cove, and here, 

 according to the solemn ritual of the 

 Church of England, on a perfect mid- 

 summer day the mortal remains were 

 laid to rest in the family burial 

 place, beneath the shadow of the 

 magnificent pines he loved so well, 

 and amid the genuine sorrow of the 

 people of the community. 



DEATH OF PROF. MAYR. 



Professor Heinrich Mayr, of Mu- 

 nich, one of the best-known of 

 European foresters, especially on this 

 continent, died on the twenty-fifth 

 day of January last. Few botanists 

 or foresters had such an extensive 

 knowledge of forest flora as he. He 

 had travelled three times around 

 the world and made an intimate 

 study of the forests of many regions. 

 Among these was North America, 

 the fruit of his studies here being 

 the well-known 'Waldungen von 

 Nord Amerika. ' In the late eighties 

 of last century he accepted a chair 

 in the Imperial University of Tokio, 

 Japan, and spent some three years 

 in that country. He then returned 

 to Bavaria, where he occupied the 

 chair of Sylviculture and Forest 

 Utilization in the University of Mu- 

 nich. In addition to his forestry 

 knowledsre. Professor Mayr was an 

 excellent linguist, speaking English, 

 French, Italian, Japanese and Rus- 

 sian with fluency. The Experimental 

 Forest Garden at Grafrath was 

 granted him by the government in 

 1894. 



THE BILTMOBE FOREST SCHOOL. 



The Biltmore Forest School is now lo- 

 cated at Marshfield, Oregon, U.S.A., where 

 the professors and students arrived on 

 August 15, having left Cadillac, Mich., 

 U.S., on August 5. Short visits were made 

 en route to Duluth, Minn., Cass Lake, 

 Minn., the Glacier National Park, Mon- 

 tana, and Portland, Oregon. Six weeks 

 are now being spent in studying Western 

 forests and lumbering. For the past year 

 or thereabout the students have enjoyed 

 exceptional facilities of becoming ac- 

 quainted with the forests and lumbering 

 in both America and Europe. From No- 

 vember 1st up to the middle of March, 

 1911, was spent in and around Darmstadt, 

 Germany. During that time, in addition 

 to Dr. Schenck's lectures, work was tak- 

 en at the 'Polytechnicum ', or technical 

 school, of Darmstadt. In addition to fre- 

 quent short excursions from that place, 

 the first two weeks of December were spent 

 in Saxony, where Dresden was the head- 

 quarters, a two days' trip to the forest 

 school at Tharandt being included in the 

 ]irogram: the second half of .January, 

 a<j;ain, was spent in the heart of the Black 

 Forest. Not only the German forests but 

 also German methods of manufacture were 

 studied with much interest. Leaving Ger- 

 many about March 15, the school sailed 

 from Eotterdam, arriving in New York on 

 March 27. After a few days ' vacation 

 work was resumed at Lake Clear, in the 

 Adirondacks, New York State, where a 

 few weeks were spent, and then the school 

 a<iain journeyed to Nortli Carolina, for 

 study in the Appalachian forest region at 

 Canton and other points. Thence, on July 

 12, the members of the school went to 

 Cadillac, Mich., visiting en route Fort 

 Wayne, Indiana, and Grand Rapids, Mich. 

 Despite the many changes in location the 

 work of direct instruction at the school 

 has been well kept up, both by the regu- 

 lar staff of the school and by special lecc- 

 turers. 



WORKING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



Mr. A. H. D. Ross, lecturer in forestry 

 at the University of Toronto, is again this 

 summer in charge of work being done on 

 some of the timberlands of British Co- 

 lumbia. The work of the parties is the 

 making of studies of the rate of growth 

 of commercial timbers in different parts 

 of the province. Mr. Ross has working 

 under him two parties. Of these one is 

 in charge of Mr. L. M. Ellis, B. S. F., who 

 has with him Messrs. Tilt, Scandrett, 

 Christie and Connell; the other has as its 

 head Mr. J. D. Gilmour, B. S. F., with 

 whom are Messrs. McFayden, Edgar, 

 Greenwood and Brown. All those named 

 are students of the University of Toronto. 



