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reports; and articles on forests in the Bulletin de la Société Geographiqué 
de Quebec, in Album Souvenir and in the Canadian Forestry Association 
Journal. 
John Bentley, Jr. 
Business address, New York State College of Agriculture, Cornell 
University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
John Bentley, Jr., was born June 8, 1880, in Brooklyn, N. Y., the 
son of John Bentley and Lizzie (Annin) Bentley. On his father’s side 
he is of English, and on his mother’s of Welsh ancestry. He has two 
brothers: Wray A. Bentley, M.E. Columbia ’98, and Ellis W. Bentley; 
and three sisters: Nellie R. Bentley, Meta E. Bentley, B.A. Smith ’oo, 
and Georgia M. Bentley. 
He was prepared at Adelphi Academy and the Brooklyn High School 
and received the degree of B.S. from Wesleyan University in 1904. He 
was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa. 
He was married October 5, 1910, in Denver, Colo., to Miss Sue Hay- 
ward of Ottawa, IIl., daughter of Hazen Hayward and Martha (McMur- 
ray) Hayward. 
From July to December, 1907, Bentley was employed in the 
Ritter Lumber Company of Mortimer, N. C. He served in the 
United States Forest Service from January, 1908, to December, 
I9II, and on January I, 1912, received his present appointment 
as assistant professor of forestry at the New York State College 
_ of Agriculture, Cornell University. 
He is a member of the Methodist church. At Yale he received 
an election to Sigma Xi. 
He has published: Pitch pine in Pennsylvania, For. Quart., 
1905 (compiled from statistics gathered by Forest School at 
Milford, Pa., 1904). 
Ovid M. Butler 
Business address, United States Forest Service, Ogden, Utah 
Home address, 124 Downey Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Ovid McOuat Butler was born July 14, 1880, in Indianapolis, Ind., the 
son of Scot Butler, formerly president of Butler College, Indianapolis, 
and Julia (Dunn) Butler. He is the grandson of Ovid Butler, founder 
of Butler College. He has four sisters: Georgia Elgin Butler, Evelyn 
