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School in 1906. Since graduation he has been in the employ of 

 the U. S. Forest Service, and has had a wide range of experience 

 in many sections of the country. He is at present assistant dis- 

 trict forester in District 3, having just returned to his duties in 

 Albuquerque after a year's study in Europe. Mr. Recknagel will 

 begin his work at Cornell on February first. 



The professional course at Cornell covers five years. Thirty- 

 six professional students have registered as members of the four 

 upper classes. There is no means of knowing how many fresh- 

 men are planning to take the professional forestry course, as in 

 their first year the men take the same work as the agricultural 

 students, and they do not need to register in the Department of 

 Forestry. 



The total registration in forestry courses at Cornell this fall is 

 235. Most of this registration comes from students of general 

 agriculture. 



P. S. Lovejoy has been appointed Assistant Professor of 

 Forestry at University of JNIichigan. He was formerly Super- 

 visor on the Medicine Bow National Forest and later of the 

 Olympic National Forest of Washington. He is a graduate of 

 this school. The faculty now consists of Professor Roth, Junior 

 Professor Sponsler, Assistant Professor Lovejoy, Mr. Young and 

 Mr. Pottinger. A re-arrangement of courses is being made to 

 adapt the work to the enlarged facilities for teaching; additional 

 equipment for laboratory and field is improving this phase of the 

 work. 



It is reported that the University of Missouri at Columbia, 

 between St. Louis and Kansas City, has added a School of 

 Forestry to its course. Some 25,000,000 acres in the State of 

 Missouri are still covered with natural forest growth, but at the 

 present rate of cutting the merchantable timber will be exhausted 

 in a comparatively short time. Even now, timber up to the 

 amount of $7,000,000 is purchased outside of the State, but the 

 School of Forestry will aim to stimulate interest in forest pro- 

 duction and protection in Missouri, and as a start will have 

 50,000 acres of State forest land for demonstration purposes. 



Professor John A. Ferguson returns from the University of 



