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his paper, " eventual reports will be reserved to the editor." The subscrip- 

 tion **for the first annual course" (twenty-four numbers) is Kro. 28. 



The first number of The Forestry Quarterly has made its appear- 

 ance, bearing the date October, 1902. It is published under the direc- 

 tion of the New York State College of Forestry at Ithaca, and has for its 

 objects to aid in the establishment of rational forest management, to be an 

 organ for the publication of technical papers on forestry, and to keep those 

 interested in forestry in touch with the current technical literature and the 

 forestry movement in the United States. The Forestry Quarterly is the only 

 publication in this country devoted entirely to the interests of the science of 

 forestry. A valuable feature is its review of current literature. The annual 

 subscription price is one dollar. 



The Bureau of Forestry has shown the damage caused by forest 

 fires in northwestern Oregon and southeastern Washington during Septem- 

 ber, and a conservative estimate places the damage at $12,767,100, Of this 

 amount $8,857,100 is in Washington. The estimate includes losses to farm 

 property, saw mills, manufactured lumber, standing timber, etc., and is 

 based on personal observation, conferences with lumber men, farmers, 

 settlers, and other trustworthy sources of information. Much of the area 

 burned over was covered with virgin forest, mainly of Douglas spruce, cedar, 

 and hemlock. Since most of the fires could have been extinguished before 

 they became serious, it is evident that an efficient system of forest patrol 

 would have prevented most of this loss. 



The office of experiment stations, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 has published (Exp, Sta. Record 14; No. 3) an account, prepared by Dr. 

 Walter H. Evans, of the International Conference on plant-breeding and 

 hybridization held in New York city September 30 to October 2, 1902, under 

 the auspices of the Horticultural Society of New York. A program of over 

 fifty papers was presented, and all of them are to be published in full in 

 Proc. N. Y. Hort. Soc. The account referred to above gives synopses of 

 certain papers, among which are the following : Practical aspects of the new 

 discoveries in heredity, W, Bateson ; Notes on Mendel's methods of plant- 

 breeding, C. C. Hurst ; Artificial ataviem, Hugo de Vries ; Some sugges- 

 tions for plant-breeding, Max Leichtlin ; Some suggestions for the 

 classification of hybrids, L T. Lynch ; Principles of plant-breeding, Luther 

 Burbank; Breeding of disease-resistant varieties, W. A. Orton ; Breeding 

 for intrinsic qualities, W. M. Hays ; Correlation between different parts of 

 the plant in form, color, and other characteristics, S. A. Beach ; The varying 

 tendency and individual prepotency in garden vegetables, W. W. TraCY ; 

 Cross-fertilization of the sugar cane, D. Morris ; Cytological aspects of 

 hybrids, W, A. Cannon ; A medley of pumpkins, L. H. Bailey. 



Dr. Timothy Field Allen died at his home in New York city Decem- 

 ber 5, igo2. He was born in Westminster, Vt., April 24, 1837, and was 



