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Washington, D.C. He was chief of the section of forest replace- 
ment, Bureau of Forestry in 1903, and since December, 1903, 
has been collaborator of the Bureau of Forestry and Forest 
Service and superintendent of forestry in the territory of Hawaii 
under the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. 
His course in the Forest School at Yale was taken during a 
furlough, and at this time he also gave a course in forest 
mensuration at the Forest School. He was first treasurer of 
the Society of American Foresters from 1901 to 1903, a delegate 
from Hawaii to the Conference of the Governors in May, 1908, 
and a delegate from Hawaii and speaker at the Seventeenth 
National Irrigation Congress at Spokane and at the First Con- 
servation Congress at Seattle in 1909. He has been a member 
of the Chemical Territorial Conservation Commission of Hawaii 
since 1908 and vice president of the Board of Regents, College 
of Hawaii, since 1907. 
Concerning his various experiences, Hosmer writes: “Summer 
of 1902 was spent in Maine, in charge of a party working near 
Moosehead Lake on study of spruce on cut-over land, carried 
on jointly by the Bureau of Forestry and the State of Maine. 
In the summer season of 1903 I went on an inspection trip to 
New England regarding work on white pine, in section of 
forest replacement, and from July to November 1, I was in 
Southern California in charge in that part of the state of codp- 
erative forest investigation carried on by the Bureau of Forestry 
and the State of California. Since January, 1904, I have been 
in Hawaii; organized the division of forestry in the Board of 
Agriculture and Forestry; established forest reserve system; 
systematized forest fire service; conducted campaign of educa- 
tion in forestry and conservation; and pursued policy of advice 
and assistance to private owners, particularly in tree planting; 
also, as far as limited funds permitted, have carried on experi- 
mental work in the introduction into and trial in Hawaii of trees 
of economic importance ‘new to the islands. Outside of my 
regular work I have been interested in the establishment of the 
College of Hawaii, the local college of agriculture and mechanic 
arts, of which I have been a regent since its inception; and in 
various phases of city improvement work. My chief avocations 
are in connection with affairs of the Harvard Club of Hawaii 
