No. 4.] REPORT OF STATE FORESTER. 



327 



Mr. Joseph J. Dearborn, a Harvard forestry student, was 

 appointed assistant on October 1. 



In accordance with section 6 of chapter 409 of the Acts of 

 1904, the expenditures from September 15 to December 1 

 were as follows : — 



Salaries of assistants, ....... $503 38 



Travelling ex^Denses, ....... 161 29 



Instruments, . . . '. . . . . . 72 20 



Stationery (office supplies), ...... 112 45 



Printing, 106 00 



Postage, 78 60 



Miscellaneous, 54 94 



$1,088 86 



In accordance with section 5 of the above-named act, the 

 following receipts for travelling and subsistence were re- 

 ceived : — 



Geo. AV. Beals, Norfolk, . 



E. A. Bowen, Lakeville, 



Geo. M. Whipple, Newburyport, 



W. F. Whitney, South Ashburnham, 



Dr. H. W. Neison, Marshfield Hills, 



Dr. H. W. Nelson, Marshfield Hills, 



L. E. Ware, Norfolk (paid hj owner) 



C. S. Davison, South Williamstown, 



J. T. Palfrey, Norfolk, 



W. G. Nickerson (paid by owner) . 



R. B. Corey, Scituate, 



IVIrs. E. H. Woods, Acton, . 



Oxford Agricultural Society and Grange, Dudley 



Farmers' and Mechanics' Club, Holden, 



Total 



17 62 



On deposit with the State Forester : — 

 R. B. Corey, Scituate, 

 Dwight B. Heard, .... 



Total, 



$8 92 

 13 G2 



12 54 



Besides the above, the office has been constantly made use 

 of by people on all kinds of forestry problems, and the cor- 

 respondence has been fairly large and interesting. 



