News and Notes 365 



A very complete outline for Study of Lumber Operations by 

 Students has been prepared by Mr. H. H. Tryon, of the New 

 York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, as Bulle- 

 tin No. 7, Vol. XVI of the University publications. 



A readable account of the work of the Mont Alto Forest School 

 is to be found in Forest Leaves, April, 1916. It appears that 

 the school has so far graduated 78, of whom 60 are employed in 

 the State Forest Service, 8 in other forestry work, and only 7 in 

 other callings, 3 having died. Much stress is laid on the location 

 of the school in the forest, which, by the way, is said to be in 

 first-class condition and already paying one third of its cost of 

 maintenance. The advantage of such location is, however, in 

 part offset by the loss of the advantages which come from the con- 

 tact with other interests at a University. The old controversy 

 between the advocates of University and Academy for forest edu- 

 cation will never be settled for the advantages and disadvantages 

 of either location are compensatory; hence we need both to de- 

 velop different classes of men. 



From exhibitors at the Panama-Pacific International Exposi- 

 tion, the University of California has received a large amount of 

 demonstration material for forestry, including the very complete 

 collection of Japanese lumber presented by the Japanese govern- 

 ment, and representative samples of the principal woods of China, 

 Honduras, and Guatemala. Sweden gave an exhibit showing by- 

 products obtained through distillation of wood. The C. A. Smith 

 Lumber Company presented its entire exhibit of different woods, 

 cut on its holdings in the Coos Bay region. The Louisiana State 

 Commission gave samples of eastern lumber, a tapped Longleaf 

 pine tree trunk, and products obtained by the naval stores indus- 

 try. A large amount of other demonstration material has been 

 donated by lumber and manufacturing establishments. 



Mr. Shoitsu Hotta, Assistant Professor of Forestry at the 

 Tokyo Imperial University, has entered the Yale School of For- 

 estry as a candidate for the degree Master of Forestry. Mr. 

 Hotta will be in the United States for a period of two years. 



