102 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

He is a Presbyterian, a member of the Society of American 
Foresters and the Equitable Fraternal Union. 
He has published: Forest tree seed collecting, For. and Irr., July, 1904; 
Nursery and planting tools, dm. For., May, 1912; New tools for trans- 
planting conifers, For. Quart., March, 1912. 
Clayton D. Mell 
Business address, U. S. Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 
Lebanon, Pa. 
Clayton Dissinger Mell was born November 25, 1875, in Werners- 
ville, Pa., the son of William Dover Mell and Rebecca (Dissinger) Mell. 
Both parents are of German descent. He has one brother, William Adam 
Mell. 
He was graduated at Pennsylvania State. School at Millersville, Pa., 
in 1897 with the degree of M.E. He then taught three years and entered 
the Junior year at Franklin and Marshall College in 1900, where he 
received the degree of B.A. in 1902. 
He was married July 3, 1911, in Washington, D. C., to Miss Mary 
Frances Blosser, daughter of Ross and Fannie Blosser. 
Mell has served as assistant dendrologist in the United States 
Forest Service since graduation from the Yale Forest School. 
He visited England, Germany and Switzerland in 1907 and Cuba 
in IQII. 
He is a member of the German Reformed church and the 
Society of American Foresters. 
He has published: (With G. B. Sudworth) Fustic Wood, Circe. 184, 
U. S. Forest Service; (With G. B. Sudworth) Colombian mahogany, 
Circ. 185, U. S. Forest Service; (With W. D. Brush) Quebracho wood 
and its substitutes, Circ. 202, U. S. Forest Service; (With G. B. Sud- 
worth) Distinguishing characteristics of North American gum woods, 
Bull. 103, U. S. Forest Service; (With G. B. Sudworth) The identifica- 
tion of important North American oak woods, Bull. 102, U. S. Forest 
Service; (With G. B. Sudworth) A chapter on the western yellow 
pine wood, Bull. ror, U. S. Forest Service; Distribution of tannin in 
tanbark oak, Bull. 75, U. S. Forest Service; Cabinet woods of the 
future, dm. Lumberman, Oct. 15, 1910; Facts about true and spurious 
mahogany, Hardwood Record, Oct. 26, 1910; Basket willow culture, 
Rep. Printing Co., Lebanon, Pa., 1908; Basket willow culture in Germany, 
Proc. Soc. Am. Foresters, 1910; A forester whose field is the city, Am. For., 
Sept., 1910; The forests of St. Mary County, Maryland, Md. Geol. Rep., 


