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graphical Society of London, the American Breeders’ Associa- 
tion, the American Civic Association, the Deutsche Dendrolog- 
ische Gesellschaft, the Masonic Lodge and the Society of 
Colonial Wars. 
He has published: Nature and planted timber of Iowa, Circ. 154, U. S. 
Forest Service; Holding and reclamation of sand dunes and sand wastes 
by tree planting, Rep. Iowa Acad. Sci.; Die Prérien in Zentralnordamerika 
und ihr Wert fiir Forstkultur, Dissertation, Univ. Munich. 
William H. von Bayer 
Business address, Indian Office, Washington, D. C. 
Residence, The Earlington Apartments, Sixteenth Street and Colorado 
Road, Washington, D. C. 
William Hector von Bayer was born September 18, 1876, in Wash- 
ington, D. C., the son of Hector Raimund von Bayer and Caroline 
Mathilde (von Cornberg) von Bayer. His father at different times held 
the positions of engineer of the Lighthouse Service and of the Life 
Saving Service, United States Treasury Department and civil engineer 
under the United States Navy Department in 1870. His father is also 
a former president of the German-American Technical Society and a 
member of the Cosmos Club and the Engineers’ Club of Washington, 
D. C. He is the grandson on his father’s side of August von Bayer 
and Marie (Lamery) von Bayer. The former was director of the Royal 
Museum of Karlsruhe, Baden, and court painter of Emperor William I; 
the latter was the sister of the former Prime Minister of Baden, August 
Lamery. On his mother’s side he is the grandson of Freiherr Otto von 
Cornberg, officer on the General Staff of the German Army, and Wil- 
helmina Thvene. He has two brothers: August H. von Bayer, C.E. 
Cornell ’oo, and Rudolf von Bayer. 
He was prepared at the public and high schools in Washington, D. C., 
and in 1904 received the degree of B.A. from Cornell University. He 
attended the University of Strassburg in the year 1899-00. 
He was married June 13, 1912, in Mount St. Albans, to Miss Margareta 
Alma Lorleberg of Hanover, Germany, daughter of Richard Lorleberg, 
court violoncellist at the Royal Conservatory of Music at Hanover, 
Germany. 
Von Bayer is forest examiner at large in the United States 
Indian Service with headquarters at Washington, D. C. From 
1904 to 1907 he held the position of forest assistant in the 
United States Forest Service, and from 1908 to 1910 was chief 
of Section E of reconnaissance. He was forest assistant in 
