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attention to forest management and engineering as applied to the 

 northeastern section of the United States. There is also a four-year 

 chemical engineering course covering pulp and paper. Of the 76 

 living graduates of the forestry department, 76 per cent, are now 

 engaged in either public, educational or private forestry work. Several 

 have taken post-graduate work for advanced degree. Through the 

 State Forest Nursery established at Orono in 1913 for use as a field 

 laboratory, more than 1,000,000 forest tree seedlings and transplants 

 have been sold and planted. The demand exceeds the supply. 



The present staff consists of the Department head, Professor John 

 M. Briscoe, and two assistants, C. W. LI. Chapman, Assistant Professor 

 of Forestry and Dwight B. Demeritt, instructor in forestry. Coopera- 

 tion is effected with other departments in special courses. A nine- 

 week camp course on the million acre tract of the Great Northern 

 Paper Company is required of all members of the Senior Class dur- 

 ing December and January, obtaining practical experience in pulp- 

 wood logging. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 



The school of the Department of Forestry of the University of 

 Michigan at Ann Arbor was established in 1903 as a five-year course 

 with a faculty of two and about six students. After the organization 

 of the United States Forest Service, the enrolment reached a peak 

 of 300. In 1916 the policy was changed to grant the degree of 

 Bachelor of Science in Forestry at the end of four years, retaining, 

 as well, the five-year course leading to the degree of Master of 

 Science in Forestry. 



The present enrolment in the school is 63. The faculty consists of 

 four permanent men and three student assistants. For physical 

 equipment and building the school is in excellent shape. Two pieces 

 of forest are owned by the University, furnishing facilities for 

 instruction and research. More land is needed, according to the 

 authorities, for research on a commercial scale. 



The main activity is in training men for forestry work and in 

 straight forestry research. No effort is made to develop specialists in 

 utilization or in other of the various side lines of forest work. A large 

 number of graduates, however, have gone into the lumber and pulp 



