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the occupation of the first foresters, and hence surveying is an 

 essential accessory, including road building, locating of railways, 

 and cruder engineering works. 



Every business man needs a certain amount of knowledge in 

 practical commercial law. Singularly enough this has still all 

 to be learned in practice, at the expense of employers and litiga- 

 tion, instead of a systematic course in the university. Every 

 man who claims to have a modern education should have had 

 the opportunity of acquiring such knowledge, and foresters, 

 especially, who become administrators of properties away from 

 civilization cannot dispense with it. 



So many portions of science have to be segregated and com- 

 bined towards the one end which the forester seeks to accomplish, 

 and so much has he added to it that perhaps he may be entitled 

 to dignify that organized sum of human knowledge which is 

 taught in the purely forestal courses of a professional forestry 

 school as the science of forestry and thus justify the claim of this 

 youngest accession to our university courses as a science in itself. 



