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Briscoe and on his mother’s side of Christopher Loeser and Louisa 
Augusta (Bartle) Loeser. He has two sisters: Louise Briscoe and ~ 
Avalon Briscoe. 
He was prepared at the Pottsville High School, Pottsville, Pa, and 
attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University 
of Pennsylvania. Before entering the Yale Forest School he was a 
member of the engineering corps of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal & 
Iron Company and a merchant. 
He was married June 28, 1911, in Bryn Mawr, Pa., to Miss Ethel 
Lydia Griscom of Bryn Mawr, daughter of William Morris Griscom 
and Anna Lydia (Miller) Griscom. They have a son, Sidney Griscom 
Briscoe, born May 7, 1912, in Brewer, Maine. 
In 1909-10 Briscoe was forest assistant in the United States 
Forest Service. Since September 1, 1910, he has been professor 
of forestry at the University of Maine and public instructor in 
forestry for the State of Maine. He spent the summer of 1911 
in a trip of inspection and study of forest regions of the West, 
visiting each forestry district with the exception of districts 
I and 4. 
He is a member of the Episcopal church. 
He has published: Article on Forestry Department of University of 
Maine, Am. For.; numerous articles on forestry subjects in the Lewiston 
Journal and Bangor Commercial; address before Dominion Forestry 
Convention, Quebec, 1911; (with R. Zon) Eucalyptus in Florida, Bull. 
87, U. S. Forest Service. ; 
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Georges deS. Canavarro 
United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 
Georges deS. Canavarro was born January 9, 1885, in Honolulu, 
Hawaii, the son of Antonio deS. Canavarro and Miranda (McElroy) 
deS. Canavarro. His father was captain of the Royal Navy, minister to 
the Kingdom of Hawaii, and also consul general of the Territory of 
Hawaii from 1883 to 1913. His father was from Oporto, North 
Portugal, and his mother from Kentucky, of Scotch descent. 
He spent one year at Cornell and in 1908 received the degree of B.S. 
from the University of Minnesota. At college he was a member of 
Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta and Delta Upsilon. : 
He is unmarried. 
Canavarro is forest assistant in the United States Forest 
Service with headquarters at Washington, D. C. He entered 

