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inimical to results. For such kind of introduction to a complex 

 practical profession the time, one year, was much too short, and 

 hence a heterogeneous mass of undigested information could in 

 most cases be the only result, except for a few better prepared 

 or exceptional men. What would have been an excellent post- 

 graduate course after the theoretical work had been done was 

 bound to become an impossible pedagogic abortion for under- 

 graduates. 



The hunting after practicality before the theoretical foundation 

 is laid is a fad, which will usually revenge itself by short dura- 

 tion. In this respect as in the advertising line, Dr. Schenck tried 

 to outstrip the American notoriety hunter by calling his school 

 the "really American Forest School." He is right, there is "no 

 more need of such a unique school as Biltmore ;" it was, as he 

 now admits, "visionary." 



There were other reasons why the Biltmore school was not one 

 to recommend itself, which it would lead us too far to enumerate; 

 and there are perhaps other reasons for its cessation than those 

 given by the director. 



Dr. Schenck in his obituary gives to the American public part- 

 ing advice. He calls for an organization for the distinct purpose 

 "of acquainting the American public with forestry as an Ameri- 

 can business possibility," and in the same breath he declares, that 

 private forests are "not maintained because they cannot be main- 

 tained at a profit." He is right in thinking that the task in the 

 woods of introducing forestry methods had better be entrusted 

 to a logger who knows some forestry, but it will be well to have 

 it done under the direction of a forester who knows some logging 

 — without necessarily being a logger. It cannot be accentuated 

 enough that the present-day logger in America is in an entirely 

 different business from the forester. 



Dr. Joseph T. Rothrock, whom every forester on this conti- 

 nent knows as one of the pioneers in the forestry movement, 

 having reached his 75th year has resigned as a member of the 

 Pennsylvania State Forestry Board, after serving on it for 20 

 years, although he is still hale and hearty, and active. 



Dr. Rothrock was originally a medical man, in which capacity 

 he served during the civil war, then turning to botany and acting 

 as botanist on various explorations, he l>ecame Professor of Bot- 



