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...Canada. The mean annual temperature of Montreal, said Dr. Kimble, has risen from 42°F in the 1880s to 46°F in 1950. Along the bleak natural boundary between Canada's forests and the barren Arctic, the trees are marching northward. Saplings of tamarack, spruce and birch are appearing where none grew before...
ROBERT J. BIRCH Arlington, Mass...
...trees on the summer estates belonging to George A. Elliott Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Mrs. Marion Clapp Collin of Sewickley, Pa. A year ago, a hotel employee climbed the stone wall bordering the estates, cut down five tall spruces on Elliott's property, a fine twin white birch and three maples on Mrs. Collin's property. For good measure, he lopped the branches off quite a few pines and fir trees to clear the view...
...Blight of Day. Bierce, who defined birth as "the first and direst of all disasters," was born in an Ohio log cabin in 1842, the tenth of 13 children. His godly parents never spared the birch rod, but young Ambrose was notably full of the devil nonetheless. Once, when a camp meeting was in full swing, he and a brother took an old white horse, wrapped it in straw, set that afire, and sent the blazing animal galloping into the midst of the hallelujah-shouting revivalists...
...Francis Birch '24, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, last night received the Arthur L. Day medal of the Geological Society of America for "outstanding contributions in the application of chemistry and physics to the solution of geologic problems...