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Plans have been completed for the annual meeting of the National Lumber Manu- 

 facturers' Association at Cincinnati on May 7 and 8, and a number of prominent speakers 

 will read papers and make addresses on subjects of importance. 



At the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Lumbermen's Exchange of Philadelphia, W. 

 Beits was elected president; Benjamin Stooker, vice-president; Charles P. Maule, 



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treasurer 



John Muir recently found in the forests of Brazil along the Parana a large number of 

 araucarias, called by the natives Brazilian pine, and growing 120 feet tall. The foliage of 

 the trees was in bunches at the tops. The spines on the trees prevent the monkeys from, 

 climbing them and they are called "monkey puzzles." 



A final warning in regard to the pine beetle has btfen issued by Dr. A. D. Hopkins, of 

 the United States Bureau of Entomology, who announces that infested trees may safely be 

 destroyed until May I, but that after that time felling of live or dead pine timber will only 

 aggravate the ravages of the pine beetle. 



