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Wilfrid Edward Hiley CBE (1886–1961) was a British botanist, forester, and forest pathologist.

Education and career

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In 1908 Hiley graduated with a First in Mathematical Moderations & Botany from the University of Oxford.[1] Beginning in 1908 he worked as a Demonstrator in the Experimental Garden of the Oxford Gardens.[2] He received his M.A. from Queens College, Oxford and later served on the University of Oxford's Board of the Faculty of Natural Sciences.[3] He began his career as a botanist in the University of Oxford's School of Forestry. In 1919 his first book The Fungal Diseases of the Common Larch was published.[4][5] Robert Scott Troup with Hiley as assistant gave a course in silviculture with excursions.[6] In 1920 Hiley became a member of the Association of Economic Biologists (renamed in 1934 the Association of Applied Biologists).[7] From 1926 to 1930 he was a lecturer in Forestry Economics at the Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford (which in 1939 was renamed the Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford).[1] In 1931, after a visit to the United States to advise on the taxation of woodlands, he resigned from the Imperial Forestry Institute and became the manager of the 2000 acres of Dartington Hall woodlands. He retained the post of manager until his death in 1961.[4] In 1947 he became the chair of Dartington Hall Woodlands Limited, upon its inception.[1][4]

In forestry, the forest rotation, as used in Faustmann's formula, is the planned, approximate felling age of stands or trees.[8] Hiley published a formula useful in estimating the effects of property tax on financial returns from forest rotation.[9]

Hiley was often consulted for advice on forestry management. From 1923 to 1946 he edited the Quarterly Journal of Forestry of the Royal Forestry Society (RFS).[4] He was elected in 1950 the president of the RFS,[1] which awarded him its gold medal in 1961. He was also awarded the gold medal of the Society of Foresters of Great Britain,[4] of which he was a Fellow.[10] In 1956 he was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).[4]

Selected publications

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Articles

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  • Hiley, W. E. (October 1913). "On the value of different degrees of centrifugal force as geotropic stimuli". Annals of Botany (4): 719–758. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a089485.
  • Hiley, W. E. (1918). "Suggestion for an honours course". New Phytologist. 17 (5–6): 99–101. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.1918.tb07265.x. (letter to the editor)
  • Hiley, W. E.; Cunliffe, N. (December 1923). "Further observations on the relation of the height growth of trees to meteorological conditions". Annals of Applied Biology. 10 (3–4): 442–452. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7348.1923.tb05687.x.
  • Hiley, W. E. (1927). "A Critical Note on Some Recent Literature on Forest Economics1". Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research. 1: 97–107. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.forestry.a062852.
  • Hiley, W. E. (1929). "Cost of Production of Timber in Britain". Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research. 3: 17–25. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.forestry.a063126.
  • Hiley, W. E. (1948). "A Basis for Fixing Controlled Prices of Round Coniferous Timber". Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research. 22: 4–44. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.forestry.a062950.
  • Hiley, W. E. (1952). "Numerical Thinning: With Special Reference to Japanese Larch". Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research. 25: 10–18. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.forestry.a063036.
  • Hiley, W. E. (1956). "The Discussion of Forest Problems". Forestry. 29: 1–3. doi:10.1093/forestry/29.1.1.
  • Hiley, W. E. (1959). "Two-Storied High Forest". Forestry. 32 (2): 113–116. doi:10.1093/forestry/32.2.113.

Books and monographs

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Wilfrid Hiley". Dartington Trust. 15 October 2019.
  2. ^ Gunther, Robert Theodore (1912). Oxford Gardens. Based Upon Daubeny's Popular Guide to the Physick Garden of Oxford: With Notes on the Gardens of the Colleges and on the University Park.
  3. ^ Oxford University Gazette. Vol. 51. June 1, 1921. p. 674.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Geoffrey C. Ainsworth. Brief Biographies of British Mycologists (John Webster, David Moore, eds.), p. 88 (British Mycological Society; 1996) (ISBN 0952770407)
  5. ^ McDonald, Peter; Lassoie, J. P. (1996). The Literature of Forestry and Agroforestry. Cornell University Press. p. 43. ISBN 0-8014-3181-6.
  6. ^ Oxford University Gazette. October 8, 1920. p. 51.
  7. ^ "List of Members". Annals of Applied Biology. 9 (1): 86. April 1922.
  8. ^ Fairchild, Fred Rogers (October 1935). Forest Taxation in the United States. United States Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publication No. 218. Washginton, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 615.
  9. ^ Fairchild, Fred Rogers (October 1935). Forest Taxation in the United States. p. 61.
  10. ^ "List of Members of the Society of Foresters of Great Britain as at 1 June 1959". Forestry. 32 (2): 219–224. 1959. doi:10.1093/forestry/32.2.219.
  11. ^ Guillebaud, W. H. (1927). "Review of Financial return from the cultivation of Scots and Corsican pines by W. E. Hiley". Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research. 1: 125–126. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.forestry.a062836.
  12. ^ "review of The forest industry of Finland by W. E. Hiley" (PDF). Nature. 122 (3078): 667. October 27, 1928. doi:10.1038/122667a0.
  13. ^ "The Adventure of Forestry (editorial note)". Forestry. 37 (2): 127. 1964. doi:10.1093/forestry/37.2.127-a.
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