Career: 

1906-1910   : South African Forestry Department, first in Cape
              Colony, later in Transvaal where he was District
              Forestry Officer.
1910-1915   : Conservator of Forests in Colony of Sierra Leone and
              Member of Legislative Council.
1918-1922   : Conservator of Forests, Western Australia.
1922-1925(?): Commissioned by Commonwealth Government to report on
              the forests of Papua and New Guinea.
1925-1927   : Forestry Adviser to Commonwealth Government.
1927-1945   : Inspector-General of Forests, Commonwealth Forestry
              Bureau.
1927-? 1944 : Acting Principal, Australian Forestry School.
1945        : Commissioned by the Union Government to report on the
              Eucalypt plantations of South Africa.

Other activities:

Represented Commonwealth Government at First Empire Forestry
 Conference, London, 1921.
Vice-President of Third Empire Forestry Conference, Australia, 1928. Represented Commonwealth Government at Fourth Empire Forestry
 Conference, South Africa, 1936.
Foundation member of the Royal Society of Australia.
Member of the National Research Council.

Principal publications:

"Trees, Shrubs and Climbers of Sierra Leone"
"Kiln Drying of Jarrah"
"Forest Resources of the Territories of Papua and New Guinea" "Forests of Norfolk Island"
"Forest Policy for Federal Capital Territory and Jervis Bay" "Application of Statistical Methods to Forest Problems" (with T N
  Stoate)