298 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

Since leaving the Forest School Mason has been entomological 
assistant in the branch of forest insects of the United States 
Bureau of Entomology, in charge of the South Atlantic and Gulf 
states. He writes: “Was in charge of forest insect field station 
at Spartanburg, S. C., from August 20, 1911, until the closing of 
the station, December 15, 1911. Went there as last man and came 
away in charge. Since then have been engaged in editorial and 
investigating work in Washington with frequent trips through. 
the South and attendance at meetings of various kinds to speak 
on the southern pine beetle.” 
In politics Mason is a Democrat. He served in the Spanish 
War as second lieutenant of Company B of Colonel Koch’s regi- 
ment of United States Provisional Volunteers. He is a member of 
the Princeton Club and of the Society of Economic Entomology. 
He has published stories in various magazines, sixty-eight arti- 
cles in newspapers, and forty-nine addresses delivered from New 
Orleans to Raleigh, N. C., in lumber journals and newspapers, 
and an address before Forestry Convention at Raleigh, N. C., 
published as bulletin of North Carolina Geological and Economic 
Survey. 
Harry Olin 
Rush City, Minn. 
Harry Olin was born August 21, 1887, in Okemos, Mich., the son 
of John Henry Olin, a merchant, and Eva (Tyler) Olin. His father is 
of Welsh ancestry and has been city treasurer and a member of the 
school board. 
He was prepared at the Okemos (Mich.) High School and in 1910 
received the degree of B.S. from. Michigan Agricultural College, where 
he was a member of Phi Delta. 
He was married August 21, 1911, in Lansing, Mich., to Miss Clara 
Mary Brisbin of Lansing, daughter of Frank C. Brisbin (died in 1889). 
Since September, 1911, Olin has been an instructor in agri- 
culture at the Rush City (Minn.) High School.. 
He is a member of the Episcopal church and also of the 
Masonic Order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 

