236 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

years and had a nervous breakdown in 1905. As soon as I gained 
a little strength, I went to the Forest School, but the next year 
abandoned forestry for agricultural study. After four years of 
that, I am now in the office of farm management.” 
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and in 
politics is a Progressive. He is a member of the Farm Man- 
agement Association, the Eugenics Club of the University of 
Wisconsin and of two geographical societies. 
He has published: Forest problem in an Ohio county, For. 
Rev.; and The Climate of Wisconsin and its relation to agricul- 
ture, Bull. 223, Wis. Agric. Exper. Sta. 
Hugh G. Calkins 
Business address, Box 556, Albuquerque, N. Mex. 
Residence, 508 West Copper Avenue, Albuquerque, N. Mex. 
United States Forest Service, Albuquerque, N. Mex. 
Hugh Gilman ‘Calkins was born August 21, 1884, in Rockport (now 
Lakewood), Ohio, the son of Carlos G, Calkins, a retired captain of the 
United States Navy, and Caroline (Cathcart) Calkins, daughter of 
Charles W. Cathcart of Ohio. On his father’s side he is the descendant 
of early Puritan settlers in New England, who went to Ohio about 1840, 
and on his mother’s side he is of English ancestry. He has a brother, 
Frank C. Calkins, B.S. University of California ’99 and M.S. University 
of California. 
He was prepared at the Berkeley High School, Berkeley, Calif., and 
at Swarthmore Preparatory School, and in 1906 received the degree of 
B.S. from the University of California. 
He is unmarried. 
Calkins is supervisor of Zuni National Forest with headquar- 
ters in Albuquerque, N. Mex., which position he has held since 
June 1, 1911. During the year 1906-07 he was employed in the 
Service in California and after leaving the Yale Forest School in 
July, 1908, he was appointed forest assistant. In July, 1909, he 
became deputy forest supervisor and remained in this position 
until his present appointment. He writes: “Aside from occasional 
brief trips to the East or the Pacific Coast, my time has been 
spent wholly in work for the United States Forest Service in 
Arizona and New Mexico.” 
He is a member of the Society of American Foresters. 


