322 Forestry Quarterly. 



Additional appointments to the forestry faculty of the New 

 York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University have been 

 announced by Dr. H. P. Baker, whose acceptance of the position 

 of Director, appeared in the last issue of the Quarterly. John W. 

 Stephen, who has been with the New York State Conservation 

 Commission, for the past five years and who developed the State 

 nursery at Salamanca, will have charge of the nursery work and 

 demonstration planting, and will give courses in seeding and plant- 

 ing. Prof. Frank Moon, of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege, will take charge of the work in Mensuration and Forest Engi- 

 neering; while Mr. Nelson Brown, formerly Deputy Supervisor of 

 tlie Deerlodge Forest, will take charge of the work in Lumbering 

 and Utilization on July ist and will spend the summer in the 

 lumber camps of the State studying logging conditions and pro- 

 curing material for the Museum. Prof. Frank Moon is to spend 

 the summer in Europe studying forest conditions. 



Professor William Darrow Clark, (Yale '09), hitherto Assistant 

 Professor at State College, Pennsylvania, has been selected to fill 

 the vacancy as head of the forest school. 



The school has a 20,000 acre tract of virgin White Pine in the 

 western part of the State, where two months are spent during 

 the full-grade four-year course. A large mill in the vicinity offers 

 opportunity for studies in mill scale and similar work. The entire 

 second semester of the senior year is spent in the woods of the 

 South. There are more than one hundred and fifty students 

 reported as enrolled, thirty graduating this year. 



By the new announcement of the Colorado School of Forestry 

 at Colorado Springs, a one year ranger course is to be established. 

 Also the proportion of field work in the School is considerably 

 increased. In both the two year technical course and in the 

 ranger course the students will be in the field from September 10 

 to December i and from April i to June 28. The intervening 

 portion of the college year will be spent at Colorado Springs. 

 The ranger course given by Colorado College last winter was very 

 successful. There is, however, a great need of more thorough 

 training of men for ranger service than can be given in a ten 



