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weeks course. Men are to be accepted in the one years course ( i ) 

 who have completed a high school course, or (2) who have had 

 employment in the Forest Service (3) or if not less than eighteen 

 years of age at the discretion of the Director. The course is to 

 be conducted along practical lines and is intended primarily to 

 prepare for work on the National Forests in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. A large proportion of the instruction will be in surveying, 

 engineering, mensuration, lumbering, silviculture, grazing and fire 

 protection. 



Mr. P. J. Anderson, Investigator in the Department of Path- 

 ology of the Graduate School of Cornell University, has accepted 

 the position of Field Pathologist for the Pennsylvania Chestnut 

 Tree Blight Commission. Mr. Anderson has previously investi- 

 gated the cement dust injury to fruit trees in New York State and 

 carried on other investigations concerning tree injuries and dis- 

 eases. He will have charge of the field investigations conducted 

 by the Commission. 



There are now over seventy-five men in the field for the Penn- 

 sylvania Blight Commission, scouting for the blight in the western 

 half of the State. The blight has been found in each of the 

 southernmost range of counties in the western half of the State, 

 although the infections are widely scattered and consist of only a 

 few trees each. These isolated groups have been removed as fast 

 as found. 



Recent advices are to the effect that Prof. Filibert Roth will 

 remain as head of the forestry department at the University of 

 Michigan instead of taking charge in the new forestry department 

 at Cornell. Prof. Walter Mulford will have charge of the Cornell 

 School and is to appoint two additional Assistant Professors, 

 making a total staff of four. The State has recently granted an 

 appropriation of $100,000 for a forestry building, which will 

 insure adequate facilities. It is expected that this will be ready 

 for occupancy by September, 1913. Meanwhile the department 

 is to occupy quarters in one of the new buildings of the College of 

 Agriculture. At a recent meeting the trustees of the University 



