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Richard Hans Boerker, born October 19, 1887, Brooklyn, N. 

 Y. ; prepared for college at Boys' High School, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; 

 received A.B. degree from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., 

 in 1909 ; graduate student in forestry at the University of Mich- 

 igan, 1909-1911, receiving the degree of M.S. in forestry in 1911. 



Engaged in private forestry work in New York and Michigan 

 at various times ; forester in the United States Forest Service in 

 Colorado in 1910, and in California from 1911-1914 engaged in 

 forest reconnaissance, silvical, and silvicultural work. 



Graduate student in botany and silvics and Fellow in Botany 

 at the University of Nebraska 1914-1915, receiving Ph.D. degree 

 in 1915. Since 1915 in charge of a private forestry enterprise 

 in New York State. 



Author of numerous articles on forestry subjects, 1907-1915 ; 

 member of Sigma Xi; American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science ; American Forestry Association ; Canadian 

 Forestry Association ; and the Ecological Society of America. 



Richard H. Boerker 



