230 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

Upon graduation from the Yale Forest School Prichard was 
appointed forest assistant in the United States Forest Service with 
headquarters in Missoula National Forest, Montana. In the fall 
of 1912 he accepted the position of instructor in the Ranger 
School, New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse, N. Y., 
his present appointment. 
He is a member of the Congregational church and in politics 
is a Progressive. 
Abbott B. Silva 
Forest Service, Missoula, Mont. 
Abbott Beecher Silva was born October 4, 1885, in Thomasville, Ga., 
the son of William Posey Silva, an artist, and Caroline Walker (Beecher) 
Silva. A relative, Harrison D. Burrall, is ex-’07 Forest School. 
He was prepared at the Chattanooga High School, Chattanooga, Tenn., 
and at the Manor School, Stamford, Conn., and in 1908 graduated from 
the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, where he was a member of the 
Sheff Debating Society and of the Spanish Club. 
He is unmarried. 
Silva is forest assistant in the United States Forest Service, 
with headquarters at Missoula, Mont. He entered the Service 
July 1, 1910, receiving his present appointment. 
Robert Simmons 
Robert Simmons was born in 1885 in New York City. He attended 
the preparatory and collegiate departments of the College of the City of 
New York and received the degree of B.A. in 1906. 
Simmons entered the United States Forest Service in July, 
1909, but resigned in October of the same year. It has not 
been possible to secure his present address. 
Thomas E. Snyder 
Business address, Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C. 
Home address, 420 West 116th Street, New York City 
Thomas Elliott Snyder was born February 6, 1885, in New York City, 
the son of Roger Snyder, a physician, and Alice Celinda (Brice) Snyder. 
On his father’s side he is of German ancestry and on his mother’s Scotch, 

