FOREST NOTES 



Cornell's forestry school has a girl 

 student. She is Miss Mabel G. Beck-- 

 ley, and she is the second girl student 

 the school has had in the past ten years. 

 Miss Beckley is devoted to the subject 

 and is doing admirable work, not only 

 in the schoolroom but in the field work 

 as well. 



tomobile, a number of the forest schools 

 throughout the country and hold a num- 

 ber of meetings and discussions during 

 the period they are together. 



Hubert Somers, of the Somers Brick 

 Co., of Bakersville, N. J., reports find- 

 ing some well preserved logs under the 

 clay deposit in the company's brickyard 

 there, and has sent a piece of one to the 

 American Forestry Association's office. 

 The logs were found about 24 feet un- 

 der ground, the surface there being 

 some forty feet above sea level. State 

 Geologist, Henry B. Kummel, of New 

 Jersey, estimates that the log is probably 

 50,000 years old. At a comparatively 

 recent period, geologically speaking, the 

 southern portion of the State stood 

 forty or fifty feet lower than at present. 

 Previous to this submergence the land 

 stood about as high as at the present 

 time. Then grew the trees of which 

 the logs found are a part. Followed 

 the submergence and then the forma- 

 tion of the clay beds and thousands of 

 years later the rising of the land again 

 to its present level. 



The cruising and engineering depart- 

 ment of the L. E. Campbell Lumber 

 Company of Detroit, in charge of 

 Charles A. Barnum, has just issued a 

 very attractive pamphlet on the value 

 of skilful cruising of timberland and 

 the necessity of consulting forest en- 

 gineers when in search of accurate 

 knowledge of timber holdings. 



The Ames Forester, published an- 

 nually by the Forestry Club of the Iowa 

 State College, made its appearance in 

 June and contains excellent articles by 

 Prof. Nelson C. Brown, of Syracuse; 

 H. H. Richmond, W. G. Baxter, A. F. 

 Hoffman, L. P. Wygle, Prof. L. H. 

 Pamniel, and Prof. G. B. MacDonald. 

 It is well illustrated and is a publication 

 of which the school may well be proud. 



The seventh congress of the Interna- 

 tional Union of Experimental Forest 

 Institutes will be held in Hungary from 

 Sept. 7 to 17 with the start of the ex- 

 cursions and the meetings at Budapest. 

 The delegates will visit, by train and au- 



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The Department of Agriculture has 

 just issued a pamphlet on Systematic 

 Fire Protection in the California For- 

 ests, by Coert DuBois, district forester 

 of District 5, with headquarters in San 

 Francisco. It is for the district officers 

 and not for public distribution, and is 

 designed to show how the forest fire 

 problem must be worked out, the best 

 methods and the most suitable ap- 

 paratus employed in fighting it and in 

 protecting the forests and how the high- 



