€an<ididn forestry journal 



Vol. XL 



Ottawa, Canada, Jilv, 191'). 



No. 7 



The Work of the 



Forest Products Laboratories 



Bii 



John S. Bates, Chem. E., Ph.D., 



Superintendent. 



The Forest Products Laboratories of 

 Canada were established in 1913 under the 

 Forestry Branch of the Department of the 

 Interior. The laboratories have been lo- 

 cateil in Montreal in connection with 

 McGill University. The plan of co-opera- 

 tion with McGill University has proved to 

 be a verv satisfactorv one and this union 



of Goverunieut and university in scientific 

 research may be considered as marking an 

 era in Canada's development. The rela- 

 tion of the laboratories to the university 

 is flexible and the co-operation is i)riniarily 

 one of goodwill, the university having pro- 

 vided quarters for our laboratory work and 

 the Federal Government, through the For- 



Wicksteed Testing Machine at the Forest Products Laboratories. 



in Static Bending. 



Method of Testing Mine Booms 



