On the twenty-fourth of January of this year, Professor John 

 Schmutz passed from among us. He came to this country from 

 Switzerland a number of years ago, eager to make hie way in the 

 land of his choice. The first work to which hj turned his hand 

 was the mining of lead in Missouri. His spare time while there 

 was spent in adding to his knowledge. After a time he became con- 

 nected with the United States Lake Survey, where he continued his 

 studies and took advantage of opportunities until he became re- 

 corder and then draughtsman. He left this work to enter the em- 

 ploy of Professor J. B. Davis as computer and draughtsman dur- 

 ing the survey of the St. Clair Flats. After the survey was com- 

 pleted, he returned to the service of the (government on the Miss- 

 issippi River Survey, where he remained until the Fall of 1905, when 

 he was appointed Instructor in Surveying in the University of Michi- 

 gan. Last June he was given the title of Acting Assistant Profes- 

 sor of Surveying. 



Always helpful, always ready with advice or a joke, with mod- 

 esty his greatest fault, his loss is deeply felt by all who have been 

 associated with him. H. B. MERRICK. 



The Second Smoker 



On February tenth, we held our 

 second Forestry Club smoker. About 

 se'venty-five were present. The 



speaker of the occasion was Profes- 

 sor Hegner, who talked on "The 

 Methods of Photographing Animals." 



Instead of giving us general "cut 

 and dried" information concerning 

 the subject, he gave an account of 

 his own methods and experiences, il- 

 lustrated by lantern slides from pic- 

 tures he himself had taken. The 

 main part of his talk was on birds, 

 but he also had several pictures of 

 animals, among them our black and 

 white friend. The Professor explained 

 ed that it took considerable nerve to 

 approach within six feet of that ani- 

 mal, duck his head under a focus 

 sing cloth, and snap the shutter. The 

 boys were particularly delighted with 

 his account of bird morals. The cow- 

 bird he called the "original suffra- 

 gette," for reasons quite obvious; a 

 picture of a lark's nest at night show- 

 ed only the female bird on the nest, 

 suggesting a popular expression. The 

 whole talk was intensely interesting, 

 and the slides were excellent. 



Immediately following Profesor 

 Hegner's talk, Professor Roth read to 

 the boys an answer to the anti-con- 

 servation speech of Senator Shafroth, 

 which was given in University Hall a 

 few nights before This 'speech was 

 a severe and un'ust criticism of con- 

 servation in Colorado, and was re- 

 markable for its inconsistencies, and 

 its general display of ignorance and 

 lack of information regarding the 

 subject on the pan of the Senator. 

 Professor Roth's -inswer was a very 

 strong and reasonable argument, 

 based on actual facts and figures, 

 which very thoroughly disproved the 

 Senator's statements. It indmated that 

 Senator Shafroth's purpose in fight- 

 ing conservation might not have as 

 honorable an intent as the Senator 

 would have the people believe, but 

 was an attempt to incite a reversion 

 to the "good old days" when land- 

 grabbing was in vogue. Professor 

 Roth stated that Senator iShafroth 

 seemed more a tool of the "interests," 

 than an agent of the people pledged 

 to work for their best interests. Any- 

 one familiar with Professor Roth 



