522 Forestry Quarterly. 



A forward step in the conservation of Missouri's resources has 

 been taken by the University of Missouri in the appointment of 

 Professor J. A. Ferguson, of State College, Pennsylvania, to the 

 position of Professor of Forestry in the College of Agriculture. 

 Professor Ferguson is a graduate of Yale Forestry School, and 

 has for nearly two years been acting head of the Department 

 of Forestry at State College, Pennsylvania. 



The College of Agriculture owns fifty thousand acres of for- 

 est lands in the southern part of Missouri. It is planned to 

 utilize these lands as an out-door laboratory for the instruction 

 in practical forestry. It is probable that a portion of the forestry 

 instruction will be given on these forest lands. 



Additions have been made to the teaching staff in the Depart- 

 ment of Forestry at Pennsylvania State College by the appoint- 

 ment of J. B. Berry, of the University of Minnesota, and R. R. 

 Chaffee, of Harvard. Both of these men are graduates of the 

 forest schools of their respective universities, and each has been 

 engaged in field work for the Forest Service. These changes 

 are the result of the resignation of Prof. J. A. Ferguson to take 

 charge of the forestry department of the University of Missouri 

 and of the necessity for enlarging the teaching staff because of 

 the increased number of. students. 



Two changes have been made in the faculty of the Forestry 

 Department of the University of Nebraska. The vacancy left 

 by the death of Professor Frank J. Phillips was filled by the pro- 

 motion of O. L. Sponsler from Adjunct Professor and W. J. 

 Duppert was appointed Adjunct Professor. Mr. Duppert re- 

 ceived both his Bachelor's and his Master's degrees in Forestry 

 from the University of Michigan. His experience along forestry 

 lines extends over several years in New York, Ohio, and as Forest 

 Assistant on the Coconino Forest, Arizona. 



After a lapse of eight years, there is again a forestry depart- 

 ment at Cornell University. The new work is a department of 

 the New York State College of Agriculture at the university. 



The following lines of work are to be conducted by this depart- 

 ment during the year 1911-1912: 



( I ) . Help for the farmers and other forest owners of the state 



