Prominent Membtrs Pass Away 



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' The habits of these destructive Hark- 

 heotles and the proper measures to be taken 

 for I'ontrol of this outbreak are dealt with in 

 a bulletin shortly to be issued by the Kn- 

 toinological liranch of the Department of 

 Agri.ulture. 



' The areas of diseased larch along the 

 Arrow lakes, and in other parts of the 

 Kootenays, are nuiih less numerous and 

 smaller in extent this season than for the 

 last two years. Material from the affected 

 trees was referred to ^fr. II. T. Giissow, 

 the Dominion Botanist, who reports the dis- 

 ease as a leaf-destroying fungus, Lophodcr- 

 viinm laricinum. The majority of the trees 

 atta>kod last season have recovered; but it 

 is probable that if severe outbreaks should 

 occur on the same areas for several years 

 in succession, much timber would be killed, 

 and opjiortunity offereil for the destructive 

 Bark-beetles to obtain a foothold in the 

 large number of weakened trees. ' 



PROMINENT MEMBERS PASS AWAY. 



Death has taken heavy toll of our mem- 

 bership iluring the past summer and 

 autumn, and in some cases death came in 

 tragic form. This was so in the case of 

 Mr. H. H. Lyman, hear! of the great drug 

 house of Lymans Limited, Montreal, who, 

 with Mrs. Lyman, perished in the Empress 

 of Ireland disaster. Mr. Lyman left a 

 number of charitable bequests. Among 

 these were: To McGill University, Lyman's 

 Entomological Library and cases and $26,- 

 000; to aid in the establishment of a Mont- 

 real Public Library, .$125,000; to the Chil- 

 dren 's Memorial Hospital, $25,000, etc., 

 etc. 



Mr. M. M. Boyd, of Bobcaygeon, Ont., 

 died in Philadelphia, where he had gone 

 for moclical aid on June 8,- in his fifty- 

 ninth year, and was buried in the family 

 plot in Peterboro, Ont. Mr. Bovd, along 

 with his brother, Mr. W. T. C. Boyd, early 

 assumed charge of the business founded by 

 his father, the late Mossom Boyd, and in 

 this way became acquainted with all the 

 details of lumbering. As a practical lum- 

 berman, he always deprecated any Govern- 

 ment policy, which, for the sake of imme- 

 diate revenue, would cause a too rapid de- 

 pletion of the forests. Mr. Boyd did not 

 confine his energies to the lumber business, 

 but took a keen interest in stock breeding, 

 especially in the development of Polled 

 Hereford cattle, which was carried on at 

 the firm's ranch near Prince Albert, Sas- 

 katchewan. In fact, he was greatly in- 

 terested in all that pertained to agricul- 

 ture, and since his death the resolutions of 

 sympathy passed by the different agricul- 

 tural organizations show the esteem in 

 which he was held and the value of his 

 work. 



Lieut. -Col. Jeffrey H. Burland, of Mont- 

 real, who had gone to England as head of 

 the Canadian Red Cross organization at 

 the front, was stricken with a fatal attack 

 of angina pectoris on the night of Oct. 8, 

 after being until a few hours before in hia 

 usual good health. Col. Burland, who was 

 born in Montreal in IStH, was a memlier of 

 a leailing family of that city, anil was 

 prominent in many business enterprises. 

 He was president of the British America 

 Bank Note Company, of the Prudential 

 Trust Company, etc. He was a generous 

 patron of jiractically every hospital and 

 charitable institution in 'Montreal, and, 

 among many other benefactions, founded 

 the King Edward Tuberculosis Institute of 

 Montreal. He had commanded the Sixth 

 Fusiliers of Montreal, was a member of the 

 small arms committee umler the Canadian 

 Government, and President of the Domin- 

 ion Kifle Association. He wa sone of the 

 originators of the moveiiu-nt for sending a 

 Canadian battalion to England on tlie oc- 

 casion of Queen Victoria's diamond .iubilee 

 in 1SJ>7, and was present by invitation at 

 the coronation of King Edward VII. and 

 King George. Col. Burland was strongly 

 impressed with the necessity of ]>reserving 

 our natural resources, and was among the 

 earliest members of the Canadian Forestry 

 Association. His energy and his strong 

 personality, in addition to his wide busi- 

 ness and social connections, made his in- 

 fluence felt throughout Canada, and that 

 influence was always exerted for the l)ene- 

 fit of his country. 



TELEGRAPH POLES ALSO. 



The Secretary of the High Commis- 

 sioner's office in London recently inter- 

 viewed the British Post Office Department 

 in regard to purchasing telegraph poles in 

 Canada. He was informed that whereas 

 comjietition with Kussia and Norway for 

 smaller poles would ])robal)ly be tod keen 

 for Canada to meet, the Department would 

 consider the question of placing trial or- 

 ders for larger size poles in Canada. 



U. S. and N. Y. Timber. 



In the United States as a whole four- 

 fifths of the standing timber is privately 

 owned, and one-fifth is owned by various 

 states and the Federal Government. New 

 York owns one-fifth of the forest land of 

 the state, and one-fourth of the standing 

 timber. Owing to a clause in the Constitu- 

 tion, this timber can not be cut, even 

 though it is dying, or dead, and a menace 

 to healthy timber about it. The state 

 should allow careful cutting of mature 

 timber in the Adirondacka. — .V. T. Forest 

 CoUcije BnUetin. 



