have been published, and will be 

 sent to them, "lest they forget." 



"Under the Civics Improvement As- 

 sociation of Ann Arbor, of which Pro- 

 fessor Roth is chairman, we have a 

 City Beautifying Committee with Pro- 

 fessor Sponsler at its head. Though 

 this committee is but one of seven- 

 teen in the Association, it is doing 

 more work than all the others to- 

 gether. Under this committee, compos- 

 ed of faculty and townsmen, several 

 forestry students are doing a lot of 

 work, gaining a vast amount of ex- 

 perience in city work, and inciden- 

 tally earning a little money. This 

 committee is really taking the place 

 of a City Forester, and is .giving for- 

 estry students, who are looking to- 

 wards City Forestry work, some real 

 practical experience in that line. 



"An inventory of the city street 

 trees has been started, getting all 

 possible data on conditions, care, 

 and needs of each tree. This work is 

 being carried on in a special problem 

 course given to forestry students. 

 Some of our boys are also doing 

 planting of shrubs and trees about 

 the city. Trimming, spraying and 

 planting jofos have 'been coming in 

 faster than can be taken care of. 



"The people here in Ann Arbor 

 are opening their eyes to the im- 

 portance of plant growth and the ne- 



cessity of keeping up their property, 

 and of the real value which a well- 

 planted lot amounts to in dollars 

 and cents. They are also realizing 

 that it is not necessary to go out of 

 town to get someone to look after 

 their trees and shrubs, but that we 

 have men here who understand a 

 "little" about it, and can give them 

 advise as well as to order any trees 

 or shrubs they want and set them 

 out; and even do trimming, cement- 

 ing, and spraying at prices which 

 they cannot get elsewhere." 



RAY B. OBASISETT. 



The materials sent in from men in 

 the field are being taken care of as 

 rapidly as they come in. Pottinger 

 has charge of this work, and has 

 cases in which to place specimens on 

 exhibition, and files in which to re- 

 cord them. In order to prevent dup- 

 lication, the Department is sending 

 out for specimens wanted, and the 

 men are responding generously. One 

 very interesting exhibit is the sec- 

 tion of a turpentine tree with its at- 

 tachments for catching the resin. 

 This was sent by Scherer, of Flag- 

 staff, Arizona. The Department is 

 glad to get these specimens, and as- 

 sures the senders that the material is 

 well taken care of and put to goad 

 use. 



News from the Men in the Field. 



From Keddie, California, on the 

 Plumas came a letter signed by Hill, 

 '05, Evans, '10, Jotter, '09, Kotok, '11, 

 and Wegner, '12, the "bunch" repre- 

 senting the Sierra, Trinity, Shasta, 

 md (Mono, and working with Margo- 

 lin (Cornell) to test reconnaissance 

 methods as to accuracy, speed and 



economy. This is real science going 

 into Forestry work, and District 5 is 

 to : be congratulated on having seen fit 

 first to test its methods (before spend- 

 ing 'money and time on large jobs, 

 necessary for a proper inventory and 

 study of its great resources. It was 

 a fine bunch, too, and we expect 



