September-October 1948
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
SIR JOHN BOYD ORR, Director-General
DIVISION OF FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS
MARCEL LELOUP, Director
FORESTRY BRANCH
B. B. SHOW, Chief
J. D. B. HARRISON
T. FRANCOIS
D. Y. LIN
M. A. HUBERMAN
H. SCAVENIUS
FOREST PRODUCTS BRANCH
E. GLESINGER, Chief
P. TERVER
L. J. VERNELL
A. GORDON
S. J. BAUER
N. DE FELSÖVANYI
J. P. KAGAN
SECRETARIAT
R. C. FORTUNESCU, Editor, in charge of Secretariat
EUROPEAN WORKING. GROUP
D. R. CAMERON, Chief
P. SARTORIUS
R. G. FONTAINE
S. J. BAUER
STANDING ADVISORY COMMITEE ON FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS
Chairman, L. F. WATTS Chief of U. S. Forest Service, Washington, D. C., U. S. A.
Vice-Chairman, B. DUFAY Director-General of Waters and Forests, Paris France
G. CERF, Adviser to the Belgian Government on International Timber Affairs
H. G. CHAMPION, Professor of Forestry, Oxford University, England
A. FJELSTAD, Delegate of the Royal Norwegian Government on Agricultural Affairs, Washington, D. C., U. S. A.
S. C. LEE, Chief, Department of Forestry, Nanking, China
D. A. MACDONALD, Acting Dominion Forester, Dominion Forest Service, Department of Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Canada
H. MARK, Director of the Institute of High Polymer Chemistry and of the Chemical Department, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, New York, U. S. A.
E. SAARI, Professor, Forestry Department, University of Helsinki, Finland
P. DE SOUZA, Chief, Division of Forests and Parks, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
H. G. WINKELMANN, Director of the Swiss Forest Economy Association, Solothurn, Switzerland
TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
Forestry Education: Chairman, H. G. CHAMPION
Chemical Wood Technology: Chairman, H. MARK
Mechanical Wood Technology: Chairman, J. CAMPREDON, Chief of the Central Research Services for Wood, Paris, France
Unexploited Forests: Chairman, T. GILL, Secretary of the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Foundation, Washington, D. C., U. S. A.
Pulp and Paper: Chairman, L. RYS, Professor of Wood Chemistry at the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia
Forest Research: Chairman, E. I. KOTOK, Assistant Chief in charge of Research, U. S. Forest Service, Washington, D C., U. S. A.
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