With the Forest Engineers, 



Canadian Society of Forest Engineers. 



Mr. J. K. Kothery of Vitalo & Rothery, 

 r)27 Fifth avenue, New York, has been elect- 

 ed a iiu'iiilier of the C.S.F.E. Mr. Rothery 

 has just roiupleted the field work of a sur- 

 \ey of the liiuits of the Jaiiu^s McLaren Co. 

 of Ottaua, covering about 2,.")(tO s(|. miles. 

 These limits have been mapped and cruised 

 and all information will be shown on the 

 finished nuip. 



Messrs. I'iche vt Bedaril of the Quebec 

 Government Forest Service have just issued 

 a Bulletin No. 11, 'Etutle sur les Forots de 

 la Province de Qu»'>bec. ' This is largely 

 a compilation and shows: the forested areas 

 by Provinces of Canada, the value of the 

 forest jiroducts of Canada by kinds of uses 

 to which the wood was put, the areas of 

 forest in Quebec and how divided, Govern- 

 ment licensed, unlicensed, privately owned, 

 reserves, etc._ a count of the whole number 

 of trees by species on -io acres of land, list 

 of Government reserves, list of names of 

 trees occurring in Quebec, scientific, French 

 and English, total quantities of wood cut 

 since 1S71, and total revenue therefrom. 



Mr. W. X. Millar has taken the Professor- 

 ship made vacant by the resignation of Mr. 

 A. II. 1). Ross at the I'niversity of Toronto. 



Mr. Ellwood Wilson has finished the sur- 

 vey of 2,500 sq. miles for the Laurentide 

 <"onipany. Limited, showing the water- 

 courses, roads, trails, boundary lines, tele- 

 phone lines, etc., also timber conTlitions, 

 burns, cut over areas, etc. This survey was 

 built up on closed traverses with an average 

 error of closure of 1:.300. Some reindeer 

 have also been imported from Newfoundland 

 and will be trained to take the place of sled 

 dogs. 



Faculty of Forestry University of Toronto. 



Registration in the Faculty has now 

 filled U]> the ranks of students to prac- 

 tically the same number as last year, 

 namely 50. Of this number 20 are new- 

 comers, precisely the same number as enter- 

 ed last year. Just half of last year's fresh- 

 man class did not return for various reasons^ 

 four ha.ving enlisted. 



The students of the third and fourth 

 years went into practice camp at the be- 

 ginning of the term under the guidance 



of Professors Millar and Howe. The camp 

 is located in N'ernon township, north of 

 Nairn ami west of Sudbury, where the 

 Graves, liigwood Company is operating. 

 The men returned on Oct. 2!>, having had 

 an unusually successful campaign on the 

 usual lines. 



Professor Willis N. Millar, fornu^rly in- 

 sj>ector of Forest Reserves in the Dominion 

 Forestry Branch at Calgary, takes the place 

 of Mr. A. U. I). Ross as lecturer on Men- 

 suration, Utilization ami Protection. lie 

 comes with a wide practical experience both 

 in the United States and Canada. 



Dr. Howe was employed during the sum- 

 mer on reproduction studies in British Col- 

 umbia for the Commission of Conservation, 

 and will jiresently have interesting data for 

 publication on that score. 



New Brunswick Forestry School. 



The war does not seem to have material- 

 ly affected the Forestry Department of the 

 University of New Brunswick and the 

 classes, with the excei)tion of the freshman 

 are larger than usual. There are four 

 seniors, twelve juniors, twelve or more 

 sophomores, and three freshmen, besides a 

 few men taking the combined five-year 

 course in Forestry and Engineering. 



During the past summer the majority of 

 the students were engage<l in forestry 

 work. Five juniors spent a profitable sum- 

 7iier with the Dominion Forestry Bramh. 

 These were Messrs. Vavasour, llolman, 

 Ilipwell, Ketchum and McGibbon. Of the 

 sophomores, Messrs. Gil)son, Webb, Miller, 

 .Jewett, Armstrong, Townseiul and Barnes 

 were with the New Brunswick Land Com- 

 pany, and Messrs. Jago, .Mainiaun, Atkin- 

 son and Ilorncastle with Rothery & Vitale 

 in Quebec. Maurice Williams, another 

 sophomore, spent the sununer with the St. 

 .Tolin Log Driving Company, while some of 

 the others were engaged in engineering 

 work or attended the military camp at Sus- 

 sex, N.B. 



H. C. Belyea, of the class of 1011, is at 

 Yale Forest School specializing in silvi- 

 culture and finishing his M. F. degree, 



Fielil work will be carried on until 

 Christmas on the tract of land belonging 

 to the university, tbo innii.is and sopho- 



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