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research basic or related to timber or range land management, con- 

 ducted by the Carnegie Institution in 1932, was informally estimated 

 at $75,000. 



The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc., Yonkers, 

 N.Y., is engaged in fundamental research in botany. Problems relat- 

 ing to timber trees form a part of the work, and many of the results 

 obtained in other fields of botany will be of indirect value to forestry 

 by contributing to the understanding of tree functions and growth. 

 The institute has apparatus for the control of all conditions of plant 

 growth on a rather large scale. It is developing a 305-acre arboretum 

 which is being used as an experimental field for problems in forestry 

 and horticulture. Its Southwestern Arboretum, at Superior, Ariz., 

 has been established for the local study of plant problems including 

 tests of native and exotic species. The endowment of the institute 

 is about $8,000,000. 



The Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, Pittsburgh, Pa., 

 undertakes some work on forest products as a part of its industrial 

 investigations. For example, it has made studies of box container 

 construction, pulp and paper manufacture, uses for naval stores, etc. 

 Its policy is to undertake investigations, not suggested by industry, 

 but planned within the Institute and directed toward the study of 

 more fundamental scientific problems than those usually investi- 

 gated for industrial purposes. It is primarily an industrial experi- 

 ment station, operated in accordance with the Industrial Fellowship 

 System of Dr. Robert Kennedy Duncan. 



The Institute of Forest Genetics, Placerville, Calif., established in 

 1925 as the Eddy Tree Breeding Station, is working on the develop- 

 ment, by cross-breeding and selection, of better and more rapidly 

 growing strains of forest trees. Annual expenditures are estimated to 

 be in the neighborhood of $15,000. An endowment to yield an annual 

 income of $50,000 is sought. 



The Rocky Mountain Biological Station at Gothic, Colo., conducts 

 6-week summer courses in zoology, botany, ecology, parasitology, 

 genetics, and other subjects dealing generally with the relationship of 

 plants and animals to their environment and including the forest as an 

 essential factor. Cooperation with the Forest Service by means of a 

 Federal experimental forest is proposed. At Highlands, N.C., a 

 biological research station has recently been established at which 

 much the same character of investigations will doubtless be conducted. 



The Tropical Plant Research Foundation, Washington, D.C., which 

 operates on funds for research received from organizations interested 

 in tropical plant products, has conducted some investigations in tropi- 

 cal forestry. Among these is a 4-year survey of tropical American 

 timber resources, including studies of the composition and extent of 

 the important tropical forests, local uses of the more abundant species, 

 and conditions bearing on the possibilities and need for forest culture. 

 The work has included tests made at the University of Michigan to 

 determine the fitness of tropical species for use by wood-working 

 industries in the United States. The institute has also cooperated 

 with the Boyce Thompson Institute and the Department of Botany 

 at Columbia University. 



In the field of economics, a number of institutions have done or are 

 doing research bearing, to a greater or less degree, upon forestry. 

 Among these are the National Institute of Public Administration, 



