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Canadian Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation: — J. H. Sherrard, Pres., Can. 

 Mfrs' Association ; George A. Slater, 

 Vice-Pres., Can. Mfrs' Association; 

 Roy L. Campbell, Sec, Can. Mfrs' 

 Association, Montreal. 



Canadian Society of Civil En- 

 gineers : — R. A. Ross, Vice-Pres. 

 Can. Soc. Civil Engineers ; Walter J. 

 Francis, Chairman, Can. Soc. Civil 

 Engineers ; A. Surveyer, Councillor, 

 Can. Soc. Civil Engineers, Montreal. 



Society of Chemical Industry: — 

 T. H. AVardleworth, Chairman, So- 

 ciety of Chemical Industry, Mon- 

 treal. 



Canadian Roalroads : — M. G. 

 Blaiklock, Chief Engineer, ]Mainten- 

 ance of Way, G.T.R., Montreal; C. 

 E. E. Ussher, Passenger Traffic 

 Agent, C.P.R., Montreal; B. M. 

 Winegar, Forest Inspector, C.P.R., 

 Montreal. 



Canadian Lumbermen's Associa- 

 tion : — Frank Hawkins, Sec'y, Can. 

 Lumbermen's Association, Ottawa. 



Other guests were : Hon. Sydney 

 Fisher, Ottawa; Howard Murray, 

 Vice-Pres., Shawinigan Water and 

 Power Company, Montreal ; Smea- 

 ton White, Capt. J. A. Weir John- 

 son, A.O.D., Montreal ; Air. Wm. 

 Kelly, Canadian Explosives, Ltd., 

 Montreal ; J. B. Bell, Chief Chemist 

 Canadian Explosives, Ltd., Mon- 

 treal; William Little, Westmount, 

 P.Q. : T. L. Crosslev. Laboratorv of 

 Dr. T. T. Donald, Montreal; 'Dr. 

 Hugh P. Baker, Syracuse Univer- 

 sity, New Haven, Connecticut; 

 "Canada Lumberman," Mr. Holli- 

 day ; "Paper Trade Journal," Mr. C. 

 L. Sibley. 



The organization of the Labora- 

 tories at the present time is as fol- 

 lows : 



J. S. Bates, Superintendent; AV. B. 

 Campbell, Assistant Superintendent 

 (on active service) ; H. N. Lee, Act- 

 ing Chief, Division of Timber Phy- 

 sics ; R. W. Sterns, Chief, Division 

 of Timber Tests ; O. F. Bryant, Act- 

 ing Chief, Division of Pulp and 

 Paper ; W. G. Mitchell. Chief, Divis- 

 ion of Wood Preservation. 



The permanent staff numbers 



thirty at the present time. Seven 

 members of the staff have left on 

 active military service. There are 

 seventeen technical men actually on 

 duty at the Laboratories. The bal- 

 ance of the staff includes office staff, 

 etc., in the Division of Administra- 

 tion. 



Late Abraham Knechtel 



The ranks of professional fores- 

 ters lost one of their valued mem- 

 bers recently in the death of Abra- 

 ham Knechtel, Chief Forester, 

 Dominion Parks Branch of the De- 

 partment of the Interior, and a mem- 

 ber of the Canadian Forestry 

 Association. 



The late Air. Knechtel was born 

 at Brussels, Ontario, in 1859, and 

 was in his 56th year. He was one of 

 the pioneers in scientific forestry on 

 this continent. He was graduated 

 in 1900 from Michigan Agricultural 

 College, receiving the degree of 

 Bachelor of Science. He then took 

 a special forestry course at Cornell 

 University, receiving the degree of 

 forest engineer. For seven years 

 prior to his coming to Ottawa to 

 take up work in the forestry branch 

 of the Dominion Government he was 

 attached to the forest, fish and game 

 commission of the State of New 

 York and in that connection laid out 

 the first forest plantation establish- 

 ed by the state. In 1904 he was sent 

 to St. Louis Exposition to lay out a 

 forest nursery there for the commis- 

 sion. In recognition of his services 

 there he received a special medal. In 

 the same year he was sent by the 

 New York Commission to Europe 

 to study forest conditions and prac- 

 tice there. For several years Mr. 

 Knechtel also delivered lectures in 

 New York under the auspices of the 

 New York State School Board. 



Mr. Knechtel is survived by his 

 widow. Alary E. C. Knechtel. grand 

 daughter of the late Colonel Wm. 

 Young and the late Lieut. James 

 Eaton, both of Leeds County, two 

 sons. Otto Young and Alaxwell AIc- 

 Alichael ; and two daughters. Flor- 

 ence Eaton and Aliriam Alargaret. 



