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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



May 



in a fire which broke out on April 22 

 in Dinwiddie county, Virginia, in the 

 vicinity of Ford's depot, on the Norfolk 

 and Western Railroad. 



William M. 

 Canby Dies. 



By the recent death of 

 Mr. William M. Canby 

 the American Forestry 

 Association loses one of its most valu- 

 able members. He was for several 

 years vice-president for the State of Del- 

 aware, and at all times took a great in- 

 terest in the work of the association. 

 Mr. Canby was one of Delaware's fore- 

 most citizens, prominent in business and 

 in many charities. He always took a 

 deep interest in outdoor life, and was 

 president of the Delaware Field Club 

 for a number of years. He was trustee 

 of the fund set apart by his friend, Pro- 

 fessor Asa Gray, the famous botanist, 

 for the promotion of the study of botany 

 in this country. 



Sargent's Silva of North America 

 says concerning Mr. Canby : 



" Crattzgus canbya grows in hedges 

 and thickets in the neighborhood of 

 Wilmington, Delaware, where it was 

 first noticed in October, 1898, by Mr. 

 William M. Canby, and on the shores 

 of Chesapeake Bay in Cecil county, 

 Maryland. It grows also in the mead- 

 ows of Tohickon Creek at Quakerstown, 

 Pennsylvania, and on Tenicum Island, 

 at Haddington, and Gray's Ferry, Phil- 

 adelphia." 



He acquired a taste for botany early 

 in life from relatives and afterward in 

 school. Since 1858, when he visited 

 Florida for the first time in search of 

 plants, he had been an active and assid- 

 uous collector in many parts of the 

 United States during long and frequent 

 journeys, and his specimens, which have 

 been distributed with a lavish hand, are 

 found in all the large herbaria of the 

 world. His own herbarium of about 

 30,000 specimens, the harvest of many 

 years of work in the field, supplemented 

 by liberal purchases and by exchanges, 

 having outgrown the space at its dis- 

 posal, is now in possession of the College 

 of Pharmacy of New York. Since 1893 

 Mr. Canby had been engaged in form- 

 ing an herbarium for the Natural His- 



tory Society of Delaware, which now 

 contains about 13,000 species. Canbya, 

 a genus of delicate and interesting an- 

 nual plants of the poppy family, natives 

 of the deserts of the West, dedicated to 

 him by his friend, Asa Gray, will recall 

 to botanists the name of Canby and his 

 important and unselfish labors in indors- 

 ing the knowledge of the American flora. 



Kansas The twentieth semi-an- 



Meeting. nual meeting of the Kan- 



sas State Horticultural 

 Society, to be held at Dodge City, Kan- 

 sas, on May 1 1 and 12, will have a num- 

 ber of features which should prove 

 instructive and valuable to those inter- 

 ested in forestry and irrigation in Kan- 

 sas. Several representatives of the 

 Bureau or Forestry will be present and 

 read papers on various .phases of for- 

 estry in Kansas and elsewhere, and 

 several other prominent speakers will 

 talk on irrigation and its application in 

 various fields of agriculture. The pro- 

 gram for the two days' session contains 

 the following addresses on forestry and 

 irrigation : 



"Report of Work and Conditions 

 of the State Forestry Station," Hon. 

 Robert M.Wright, State Forestry Com- 

 missioner ; ' ' Work of the United States 

 Bureau of Forestry in Kansas," Wil- 

 liam L. Hall, Bureau of Forestry ; "Re- 

 port on Irrigation in Western Kansas," 

 I. L. Diesem, Garden City ; " Forestry 

 as Applied to the Development 'of Kan- 

 sas," Geo.W. Tincher, Morris county ; 

 ' ' Commercial Forestry : Catalpa Cul- 

 ture as an Investment ; ' " Shelter 

 Belts and Windbreaks," Dr. G. Bohrer, 

 Rice county ;, "Trials of Fruit Grow- 

 ing in the Semi-arid Region," Nicholas 

 Mayrath, Dodge City ; "The Hope of 

 the Semi-arid Region," Hon. F. Du- 

 mont Smith, State Senator, Edwards 

 county; "Need of Forest Culture," 

 Representative Victor Murdock ; " Pro- 

 gress of Forestry in United States," 

 with stereopticon views, etc., William 

 L,. Hall, Bureau of Forestry; "Fruit 

 Growing with Irrigation," C. H.Long- 

 streth, I/akin, Kearny county ; " For- 

 estry Planting in Western Kansas," 

 R. S. Kellogg, Bureau of Forestry ; 



