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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



July 



Trinity University, Toronto, Ontario. 

 Subsequently he studied forestry at 

 the universities of Munich and Tubin- 

 gen, receiving from the latter institu- 

 tion the degree of Doctor of Political 

 Sciences. During his course of forest 

 study he served as voluntary assistant 

 in one of the government forests of 

 Thuringia. He qualified for the United 

 States Forest Service by passing the 

 Civil Service examination for trained 

 foresters, and similarly also for the 

 Philippine forest service, which at one 

 time he anticipated entering. 



Through his special academic train- 

 ing in political sciences, Mr. Hubbard 

 brought to his professional work in 

 forestry a rare but most valuable at- 

 tainment a knowledge of the impor- 

 tant part which forests and their prop- 

 er use play in the economic life of the 

 nation. 



For one so young, Mr. Hubbard 

 had achieved much in practical forest 

 work ' that does lasting honor to his 

 name. Among his important contri- 

 butions published and being published 

 by the Forest Service, is a bulletin on 

 the basket willow, a study which 

 makes available new facts of great 

 value to an important American in- 

 dustry. He has also prepared in col- 

 laboration with Colonel William F. 

 Fox a bulletin on the maple sugar in- 

 dustry. Mr. Hubbard's contribution 

 to this publication just now going 

 through press is a discussion of the 

 silvical requirements of sugar maples 

 in their relation to sugar production, 

 as well as a large part of the discussion 

 relative to the commercial status of 

 maple sugar. 



P>ut a few days before his death Mr. 

 Hubbard practically finished a most 

 valuable paper for publication, enti- 

 tled "Forests and Forestry in the 

 United States." In this he has traced 

 the bearing which our wealth of tim- 



ber has had upon the development of 

 the country, and the relationship 

 which the forested regions bore to the 

 commercial and economic standing of 

 various comnmnities. Fortunately, on 

 account of its great value, he had also 

 outlined and practically completed a 

 plan for the protection from fire of 

 a large timber tract in northern Cali- 

 fornia. This plan was based upon 

 field studies conducted last summer, 

 and had already been accepted and put 

 into effect. 



Besides these larger accomplish- 

 ments, Mr. Hubbard has conducted a 

 number of minor but important forest 

 studies. To all was given the stamp 

 of his peculiarly original thought. In 

 no manner did he dislay the perhaps 

 t'oo common school-bred narrowness 

 of university men. His mind was 

 quick to grasp the practical bearings 

 of a problem and to solve it in the 

 most direct way. The government 

 forest work to which he was assigned 

 interested him deeply beyond the mat- 

 ter of official duty. He often found 

 time to contribute valuable discus- 

 sions in connection with them for pub- 

 lication in the forest, journals of the 

 country. 



His devotion to forestry and his 

 achievement in that field led to his 

 election, in 1902, as an active member 

 of the Society of American Foresters, 

 in the proceedings of which he took 

 the greatest interest. 



Mr. Hubbard possessed a most at- 

 tractive personality, and was very 

 highly esteemed by all who knew him 

 well for the gentleness of his nature 

 and for his manly character. He was 

 recognized at once as a leading spirit 

 among his friends and in almost every 

 movement with which he was con- 

 nected. His untimely death is to be 

 regretted the more, since he gave 

 promise of more than ordinary achieve- 

 ment in his profession. 



