>fO\'EMDER 5, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



633 



on Saturday views of fertile wheat fields of 

 Canada were seen from the car windows, when the 

 party arrived at one of the most attractive of the 

 young, rapidly growing, Canadian cities of the 

 northwest — Ca 1 ga ry . 



A most hospitable, intelligent and energetic 

 group of citizens met the party with carriages 

 and automobiles and, under the direction of the 

 mayor, carried them over a vast extent of territory 

 and showed the great possibilities of the future 

 city of Calgary. The prices of real estate in this 

 region will not remain stationary twenty-four 

 hours, according to all accounts. Supper was 

 served in the parlors of the methodist church, after 

 which speeches were made by the mayor. President 

 Thompson and others. The train remained at 

 Calgary until early Sunday morning so that the 

 trip into the Rockies could be taken in the day- 

 light. 



Stops were made at Banff and Laggan, and these 

 two remarkably picturesque resorts in the Cana- 

 dian Rockies were seen as thoroughly as the 

 limited time would allow. Early Monday morning 

 the train left Laggan and went down the western 

 slope of the Rocky ^Mountains across the Columbia 

 t,iver and climbed up the Selkirks. 



A stop was made at Glacier from 9:00 A.M. to 

 1:35 P.M. and the party indulged in all kinds of 

 glacial activities. 



Revelstoke on the Columbia was passed Monday 

 afternoon and the party enjoyed seeing the beauti- 

 ful red salmon ascending the head waters of the 

 Frazier River. 



Tuesday morning the party reached Vancouver 

 and took the steamer about an hour later to Vic- 

 toria. The four and a half hour sail from Van- 

 couver to Victoria was one of the most enjoyable 

 portions of the whole trip. The steamer passed 

 the delta of the Frazier River, then across the 

 Straits of Georgia past the islands on the west 

 side. The route of the steamer is a very interest- 

 ing one among charming islands, with remarkable 

 developments of very youthful shorelines. 



Tuesday afternoon was spent at Victoria, and 

 Tuesday evening was the one formal reception of 

 the whole trip in the magnificent parliament 

 buildings of British Columbia. 



Wednesday morning the party was divided 

 into groups, some to take automobile trips, some 

 boat trips, and some to visit local points of in- 

 terest. At 2:00 P. M. the return trip was made 

 through the islands to Vancouver where at 8:00 

 p. M. Sir William White gave a public lecture on 

 t..o British na^'y. 



Tb\irsday, September 9, was spent in the rapidly 

 growing commercial city of Vancouver; tliis city 

 being the western terminus of the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway, and having a remarkably fine harbor 

 which has developed at a very rapid rate in the 

 past few years. Its commerce is increasing almost 

 uaily and tiie great importance of tliis city in the 

 future is assured. One may call it the Liverpool 

 of western Canada. 



At 5:00 P.M. on Thursday the party went back 

 to the sleepers and started on the return trip. 

 Only short stops were made on tlie return across 

 tlie Selkirks and the Canadian Rockies. 



On Saturday morning the party reached the 

 most northern point of the trip, and entered 

 perhaps the most attractive and remarkable of the- 

 new cities of western Canada ; Edmonton, the capi- 

 tal of Alberta, on the North Saskatchewan River., 

 Edmonton, instead of being the jumping-oS' place 

 as one might suppose from a casual inspection of 

 the railroad map, is the meeting place of three- 

 lines of transportation: the railroad, the river and 

 tlie dog-trains. The citizens of this place arfr- 

 building it up in a very broad-minded manner,, 

 looking to an assured future when this city will' 

 have several hundred thousand inhabitants. 



The party was entertained at dinner in the- 

 large upper hall of the Roman Catholic Separate 

 School, and speeches were made here as usual, after- 

 which the party went down to the old Hudson- 

 Bay Fort, which some of the older members re- 

 membered as the only building in Edmonton when-, 

 they first came to the Saskatchewan River. A 

 boat trip on this river showed the coal mines, gold' 

 washing, the new bridge of the Grand Trunk 

 Pacific Railway, etc. 



The party left Edmonton Saturday night over 

 the Canadian Northern and reached Winnipeg- 

 early Monday morning. 



F. P. GULLIVEK 



FOREST PRODUCTS JNVESTWATION 

 Prep.\rations have been completed for the 

 transfer of all the government's forest prod- 

 ucts work to Madison, Wisconsin, where the • 

 TJ. S. Forest Service Products Laboratory 

 will be located, and to Chicago where the - 

 headquarters of the office of wood utilization 

 will be established. 



The new Forest Products Laboratory being 

 erected at Madison by the University of Wis- 

 consin, which wiU cooperate with the govern- 

 ment in its forest products work and whichi 



