from Vol. 15, No. 4, 1961
J.N.R. Jeffers
A future was foreseen for computers, which were at the time large machines only just being introduced into forestry research. But the extent to which they would become everyday tools for the forest manager was evidently still beyond the imagination.
John Jeffers worked for the Forestry Commission of the United Kingdom, where in the 1950s he developed methods for the statistical analysis of forestry experiments. This paper was presented at an International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Congress in Vienna, Austria in 1961.