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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



April, 



is an officer of the state agricultural 

 experiment station. The state has ap- 

 propriated for two years$2,ooc for the 

 purchase of lands for a state park. In 

 addition to this, there is a private fund 

 known as the " Lockwood fund," from 

 which monej's are available for forest 

 purposes. 



In Indiana forest work is under the 

 direction of a "State Board of For- 

 estry." The secretary of the board is 

 state forester, and the law provides for 

 no expenses other than the salary and 

 office and traveling expenses of the state 

 forester. 



The state land agent of Maine is forest 

 commissioner ex officio. In Maryland 

 the forest work is under the direction 

 of the State Economic and Geological 

 Survey. Michigan has a forestry com- 

 mission consisting of the state land 

 officer and two other persons appointed 

 by the governor. Two thousand dol- 

 lars is the amount appropriated for the 

 work of this commission. New Hamp- 

 shire has a forest commission. Forest 

 work in New Jersey and North Caro- 

 lina is under the direction of the State 

 Geological Surveys. 



New York has a forest, fish, and game 

 commission, and also a state superin- 

 tendent of forests. North Dakota has 

 a ' ' state superintendent of forestry and 

 irrigation;" Oregon, a "game and 

 forestry warden ; ' ' Pennsylvania, a de- 

 partment of forestry and a forest pre- 

 serve board ; Wisconsin, a state forest 

 warden. 



In West Virginia the Geologic and 

 Economic Survey is authorized to make 

 forest investigations, but has performed 

 no forest work, owing to lack of funds. 



Cahfornia, Colorado, and Ohio were 

 among the first states to appoint forest 

 commissions, but this w^ork has been 

 abandoned in all three of these states, 

 as the legislatures have cut off appro- 

 priations. Some experimental work, 

 however, is being done in California, 

 under the direction of the University of 

 California. 



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Death of Within the past few 



Prominent months death has made 



Foresters. g^ps in the ranks of for- 



esters which cannot be 

 readily filled. One after another, Har- 



tig, Fischbach, and Eorey, leaders in 

 forestry, whose works are standard the 

 w^orld over, have passed away. 



The name of Hartig has been long 

 and intimately associated with forestry. 

 The father and grandfather of the re- 

 cently deceased Robert Hartig were 

 leading spirits in the development of 

 forestry in their time, and their teach- 

 ings and writings have been the gospel 

 of several generations of foresters. 

 Few American foresters who have gone 

 abroad have failed to see and advise 

 with Dr. Robert Hartig. He was a 

 professor at the University of Munich 

 from 1878 to October 9, 1901, when he 

 died, at the age of 62. 



Hardly any branch of forest science 

 remains untouched and unassisted by 

 Dr. Hartig. He was especially inter- 

 ested in the numerous questions of anat- 

 omy and physiology, and particularly 

 in forest pathology. His researches in 

 plant diseases brought him universal re- 

 nown. He is justly considered the 

 creator of forest pathology as we know 

 it to-day, and he remained to the end 

 the first authority on the subject. In 

 1882 the first edition of his famous 

 " Diseases of Forest Trees" appeared, 

 and each revision of it has brought up 

 to date all of our knowledge of the 

 diseases of arborescent plants. 



Dr. Carl von Fischbach died in Sig- 

 maringen November 23, 1901 , at the age 

 of 8 [ years. He was a practical forester 

 and was in charge of the district of Sig- 

 maringen. Province of Hohenzollern, at 

 the time of his death. As an author, 

 his reputation was extensive, especially 

 through his widely read popular ' ' Lehr- 

 buch der Forstwissenschaft." By Dr. 

 von Fischbach 's decease foresters lose 

 one of the veterans of their profession. 



Dr. Tuisko von Lorey died in Tubin- 

 gen December 27, 1901, aged 57 years. 

 He was a professor at the University of 

 Tubingen and, since 1878, editor of the 

 Allgeineine Forst-und Ja^ d Zeitung. His 

 great Handbuch der Forshvissenschaft, 

 edited in cooperation with other scien- 

 tific w^orkers in the field of forestry, 

 brought him a well-deserved reputation 

 at home and abroad. Eorey was also 

 successful as a practical forester, in 

 which capacity he worked 20 years in 

 Wurtemburg. 



