NEWS AND NOTES. 



The Biltmore Forest School will hereafter give to successful 

 graduates the term "Bachelor of Forestr3\" Such successful 

 graduates as desire to obtain the degree " Forest Engineer " will 

 be placed on actual trial, namel}' : In charge of a forest range in- 

 side Pisgah Forest, aggregating from 10,000 to 30,000 acres, for 

 a term of at least six months. They are expected to do full 

 ranger's duty during that time. They will be in charge of log- 

 ging crews, of surveys, of buildings and farms, of the stock on 

 pasture, of saw-mills, and of whatever other work there might be 

 at hand within the specified range. 



Whether or not a salary will be paid to the graduate whilst 

 working for the degree of " Forest Engineer " in the capacity of 

 a forest ranger, is a question partly depending on the financial 

 conditions of the range and partly on the ability of the candidate. 



The L,awrence Scientific School of Harvard University opens in 

 the fall with a new course in forestry, which is No. 13 in its cata- 

 logue. Harvard is thus the third of the great eastern universi- 

 ties to give regular instruction in forestry. The first school of 

 forestry in this country was opened at Cornell in i8g8 by Mr. 

 Fernow, who since 1886 had been chief of the then Division of 

 Forestry at Washington. The Yale school began in 1901 with 

 Mr. Graves, also of the Division of Forestry, at the head. The 

 Harvard course is a nearer parallel to the one offered at Cornell, 

 which is of four 5'ears, while the one at Yale is of two. The in- 

 struction in this four-years' course will be divided among four 

 places, namely, Cambridge, the Arnold arboretum and the Bus- 

 sey institution at Jamaica Plain, and the field. The instruction 

 will be largely given by professors and instriictors now at Har- 

 vard, but there will be engaged in addition two skilled foresters 

 to give special courses in practical and historical forestry. One 

 of these men is R. T. Fisher, Harvard, '98, who will also keep 

 his connection with the Bureau of Forestry. The other, who is 

 not a government man, has been approached, but has not yet ac- 

 cepted. Whether he will accept the place or not will be settled in 

 the next month, — Springfield Republican. 



