10 College of Forestry 
thorough research. Little permanent progress will be made 
in Forestry until careful investigative work has been carried 
on not only to give knowledge of present conditions, but to 
determine principles upon which we must depend in the 
future in the development of the forest and all that goes with 
it in the way of animal life and the relation of the forest to 
climatic conditions. 
Dr. Bray has traveled the state from North to South and 
East to West and has climbed the highest points and visited 
the most out of the way corners that he might see the dynam- 
ics which our vegetation has shown in covering the soils of 
the state. The College is pleased to present this bulletin by 
Dr. Bray because it gives a clear picture of the present 
status of our vegetation, and especially because it is the re- 
sult of the application of a trained and keen intellect to the 
problem of showing the relationships of various phases of 
our vegetation and in interpreting the evidence of past 
vegetation and predicting as to future conditions. 
For the unusual facilities furnished by the library and 
collections of the New York Botanical Garden, the College 
of Forestry for itself and for Dr. Bray extends its grateful 
thanks to the management and staff of the Garden. Through- 
out the bulletin, where the botanical names of plants are 
given, the practice in force at the Botanical Garden has been 
followed. That is, the name system embraced in the second 
edition of Britton & Brown’s Flora of the Northern United 
States and Canada is used. 
Upon the basic principles so clearly defined by Dr. Bray, 
the College is continuing and extending its studyingand stock- 
taking of the forest resources of the state, and it hopes to 
present from time to time other reports which will be of help 
in a general educational way throughout the state and in the 
way of helping to form policies for the most satisfactory and 
effective utilization of the forest soils of the state especially. 
HUGH P: BAKSiike 
