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CONSERVATION 



The new catalogue of the school 

 shows a number of new courses which 

 very substantially enrich the curricu- 

 lum. The Forest School now affords 

 an opportunity for advanced post- 

 graduate work along special lines. 

 Hitherto the course has been pre- 

 scribed and there has been little oppor- 

 tunity for specialization. There is now, 

 however, beginning to be a demand at 

 Yale for post-graduate work by grad- 



uates of forest schools who wish to 

 specialize in certain branches. A num- 

 ber of advanced courses are now of- 

 fered and there will be a distinct 

 development of instruction along 

 this line as rapidly as the circum- 

 stances warrant it. The new courses 

 are chiefly in subjects related to Silvi- 

 culture, Forest Management, Forest 

 Products, Engineering, and Lum- 

 bering. 



PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE, DEPARTMENT 



OF FORESTRY 



THE Department of Forestry of the 

 Pennsylvania State College ha^ 

 added an assistant in the person of 

 Mr. John A. Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson, 

 who takes up his work on September 

 I, as an assistant in the Department of 

 Forestry, comes originally from Canan- 

 daigua, N. Y. He received his pre- 

 paratory training at the Canandaigua 

 Academy, and was graduated from 

 FTamilton College with the class of 

 1896, receiving a degree of A.B. In 

 1903 the same institution conferred 

 upon him the degree of A.M. 



Upon graduation from college, Mr. 

 Ferguson began teaching in the Brook- 

 lyn Polytechnic Institute at Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., and continued this work at Fond 

 du Lac, Wis. For several years he 

 was instructor in Science at Rutgers 

 College Preparatory School, New 

 Brunswick, N. J. In July, 1906, Mr. 

 Ferguson entered the Yale Forest 

 School and was graduated in 1908 with 

 the degree of M.F. While in Yale, 

 Mr. Ferguson assisted Professor 

 Tracy, of the Sheffield Scientific 

 School, in Surveying, and later assisted 

 Professor Chapman, of the Yale For- 

 est School, in field work carried on by 

 the senior class of the Forest School 



in Alabama. During the summer of 

 1907, Mr Ferguson was a log scaler 

 with the Pigeon River Lumber Com- 

 pany, of North Carolina. Upon com- 

 pletion of the course in Yale Forest 

 School, he entered the United States 

 Forest Service, au'l spent the summer 

 season of 1908 upon the Boise National 

 Forest with headquarters at Boise, 

 Idaho. 



Mr. Ferguson comes to the college 

 with unusual training, and his connec- 

 tion with the Department of Forestry 

 will mean a great deal in the develop- 

 ment of that work in this college. 



Prof. Hugh P. Baker, of the Penn- 

 sylvania State College, Department of 

 Forestry, writes: 



"Since the opening of our school 

 year, we find that we have between 

 fifty-six and sixty men classified in our 

 four-year course in forestry. These 

 men are divided as follows : Senior 

 year, four men ; Junior year, eight 

 men ; Sophomore year, fourteen men ; 

 Freshman year, thirty men. 



Our forestry society, which was or- 

 ganized last year, has held two meet- 

 ings, with an attendance of forty to 

 fifty at each meeting." 



