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to structure and of wood as a construction material. It is given 

 primarily for the lumber dealer, wood worker and wood user, 

 since it is considered now that substitutes are competing with 

 wood that more should be generally known of the particular 

 qualities of woods which render them suitable for special 

 purposes. 



Senator Walsh of Montana has introduced a bill which has 

 been referred to the Committee on Public Lands, providing for 

 a grant of 100,000 acres of the public lands in Montana for the 

 support of a school of forestry at the State University. The 

 bill provides that the lands are to be selected by the State author- 

 ities from the surveyed, unappropriated and otherwise unre- 

 served lands, not mineral, belonging to the United States within 

 the National Forests of the State. 



In Munich for the summer semester, 1915, there were regis- 

 tered 5748 students, 163 being foreigners. Out of the natives, 

 7^ per cent, to be sure, were enlisted, leaving still about 1600 in 

 attendance. There were inscribed 156 forestry students, 6 being 

 foreigners, 4 from Greece, 1 Hungarian, 1 from British India; 

 but few of the forestry students are present. 



Ever since the formation in 1900 of the first Foresters' Club 

 at the then New York State College of Forestry in Cornell 

 University, it has become customary to establish such clubs at 

 the educational institutions with more or less elaborate pro- 

 grams of lectures and entertainments. Of late, the more ambi- 

 tious of these student clubs are not satisfied with the ephemeral 

 character of club meetings, but have entered upon the publishing 

 field. As a matter of fact, the Forestry Quarterly really 

 started in this way as a student publication in 1902, but in the 

 very next year, due to the collapse of the College, became a 

 private undertaking. 



Perhaps one of the first Clubs to publish a technical Annual 

 was the Nebraska Foresters' Club, and a good one, too, begun in 

 1909, containing technical papers delivered before the Club. 



The latest two such publications come from the Syracuse and 

 Georgia schools. The New York State College of Forestry at 



