986 A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



also includes some work on forest entomology, studies of light and 

 soils and forest fires, and an investigation of factors influencing the 

 marketing of local timber. The estimated total expenditure for 

 research is between $10,000 and $15,000 a year. 



One of the most comprehensive forest research programs at en- 

 dowed universitites is that of the Yale School of Forestry, and this 

 is supplemented by some work in other departments of the university 

 on closely related subjects. The combined program includes inves- 

 tigations in dendrology, genetics, nursery practice and planting, 

 silviculture, forest management, volume, growth, yield, wood tech- 

 nology, and a group of projects on lumbering. The income from an 

 endowment for forest research is used chiefly for the employment of 

 graduate students. Two or three members of the staff are able to 

 devote large parts of their time to research subjects; one such subject 

 is the investigation of tropical woods. The school plans to relieve 

 the older members of the faculty for further research by the employ- 

 ment of instructors and additional graduate assistants as rapidly 

 as additional endowments become available. The school owns 

 several experimental and demonstration forests in New Hampshire, 

 Vermont, and Connecticut, totaling about 9,000 acres, and utilizes 

 additional areas of several thousand acres. Its research results 

 appear in a series of bulletins, of which 35 have so far been issued. 

 The total estimated present cost of forest research at Yale is between 

 $20,000 and $25,000 a year. 



The recently organized department of forestry at Duke University, 

 Durham, N.C., is a graduate institution devoted very largely to 

 forest research, most of which is conducted by the director, assistant 

 director and, at present, two assistants, on the Duke Forest of about 

 5,000 acres. Six studies of a fundamental nature are now in progress 

 incidental to teaching or administrative work, at a cost for the current 

 year of approximately $3,000. 



At the School of Forestry and Conservation, University of Michi- 

 gan, about $4,000 from an endowment for the promotion of private 

 forestry is annually devoted to the research phases of the subject. 

 There is also a private fellowship in tree physiology amounting to 

 about $500. The $4,500 thus provided for research is in addition to 

 State funds of $5,000 expended on research by the School of Forestry 

 and Conservation. 



Two projects supported by industrial fellowships are under way in 

 the Division of Forestry, University of Minnesota. One of these deals 

 with the movement of liquids through wood, the other with pulping 

 problems of aspen. A third project, in forest pathology, is also sup- 

 ported by private funds. The annual cost is about $4,800. 



The total expenditure for privately supported forest research at 

 forest schools, allowing for possible incompleteness of the citations, 

 is probably in the neighborhood of $60,000. 



ENDOWED FOKEST RESEARCH IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS 

 OF UNIVERSITIES 



Research in sciences basic to foresty is conducted at many colleges 

 and universities, usually in the departments of botany, zoology, geog- 

 raphy, engineering, or economics. At a few universities such work 

 relating closely to forestry is quite continuous; at others it is more or 

 less interrupted and incidental. 



