PROFESSOR FRANK JAY PHILLIPS. 

 By F. B. Moody. 



XVith deep regret the announcement is made of the sudden 

 and untimely death of Frank J. Phillips, Professor of Forestry 

 in the University of Nebraska. He died at his home in Lincoln, 

 February thirteenth, nineteen hundred eleven. 



Professor Phillips was born in Grandville, Michigan, Sep- 

 tember twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred eighty-one. After graduat- 

 ing from the Grandville High School he worked his way through 

 the Michigan Agricultural College, and completed the work in 

 nineteen hundred three with the degree of Bachelor of Science. 

 The same year he entered the Branch of Extension in the Bureau 

 of Forestry studying forest conditions throughout the Middle 

 West until the fall of nineteen hundred four. His intense interest 

 in forestry together with his great love for outdoor life caused 

 him to take up that study in the University of Michigan Forestry 

 School where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 

 nineteen hundred five, and the degree of Master of Science in 

 Forestry in nineteen hundred six. After completing this course 

 in the University he received an appointment as Forest Assistant 

 in the Forest Service and spent a year in the Southwest. In 

 nineteen hundred seven he was appointed Professor of Forestry 

 in the L^niversity of Nebraska, which position he held until his 

 death. 



Professor Phillips was a self-made man in every sense of 

 the word. By hard knocks he had learned the practical side of 

 forestry and his knowledge, coupled with keen powers of observa- 

 tion and a brilliant mind, served to make him a splendid leader 

 and teacher, whose enthusiasm, cheerfulness and great apprecia- 

 tion of the efforts of others, will leave a lasting impression upon 

 all who knew him. 



