No. 4.] 



REPORT OF STATE FORESTER. 



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expert, studying the moths in their native haunts, he is now 

 delegated to the duty of checking their spread from New England 

 to other sections of the country. While the State of Massachusetts 

 in a sense loses his services directly as a State employee, we feel 

 assured that in his new position his services may prove of even 

 greater value to us. Mr. George A. Smith, superintendent of 

 District 1, was promoted to the position of assistant in charge of 

 moth work. Mr. Smith has been connected with the work for a 

 long time, and we are fortunate in having one so well qualified to 

 fill this place. 



Mr. R. INI. Colley of Harvard University, who had charge of 

 the work of propagating and disseminating the fungous disease 

 of the brown-tail moth, completed his work this fall, and Mr. 

 John Murdoch, Jr., a graduate of the Harvard Forestry School, 

 who has been in the employ of this department during the past 

 year, has been placed in charge. 



Mr. F. F. Moon, who was associated with the State Forester 

 as assistant during his connection w'ith the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College, as professor of forestry, resigned to accept a 

 professorship at Syracuse University. Mr. Clark, formerly of 

 the State College of Pennsylvania, has been elected to succeed 

 Professor IMoon. 



Mr. Wm. Reiff, a student of the Bussey Institute, who was 

 temporarily engaged to carry on some experimental w^ork on a 

 large scale with the flascherie disease of the gypsy moth, under 

 the general direction of Prof. W. M. Wheeler, resigned on August 1. 



The organization of the State Forester's depar-tm-ent at present 

 is as follows : — 



General Staff. 



F. W. Rane. B.Agr., M.S., 

 H. O. Cook. M.F., 



M. C. HUTCHINS, 



George A. Smith, 



R. S. Langdell, 



H. F. Gould, M.F., . 



W. D. Clark, M.F., . 



R. H. Collet, 



John Murdoch, Jr., M.F., 



Charles O. Bailey, . 



Elizabeth Hubbard, 



Charlotte Jacobs, 



Emilie Rau, 



JosEPHA L. Gallagher, 



John Lanergan, 



State Forester. 



Assistant Forester. 



State Fire Warden. 



Assistant, moth work. 



Assistant, reforestation. 



Assistant, forestry management. 



Assistant, Massachusetts Agricultural College 



Assistant, moth disease work. 



Assistant, moth disease work. 



Secretary. 



Clerk, bookkeeper. 



Clerk, mail and office. 



Stenographer. 



Clerk. 



Office boy. 



