408 United States. 



Among these earlier publications designed to arouse 

 public attention to the subject, should also be men- 

 tioned General C. C. Andrews' report on 'Forestry in 

 Sweden/ published by the State Department in 1872. 



The Census of 1870 attempted for the first time a 

 canvas of our forest resources under Prof. F. W. 

 Brewer, as a result of which, the relative smallness of 

 our forest area became known. 



All these publications had their influence in educat- 

 ing a larger number to a conception and consideration 

 of the importance of the subject, so that, when, in 1873, 

 the committee on forestry of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science was formed and pre- 

 sented a memorial to Congress, pointing out "the im- 

 portance of promoting the cultivation of timber and the 

 preservation of forests, and recommending the appoint- 

 ment of a commission of forestry to report to Con- 

 gress,'' there already existed an intelligent audience, 

 and although a considerable amount of lethargy and 

 lack of interest was exhibited. Congress could be per- 

 suaded, in 1876, to establish an agency in the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, out of which grew 

 later the Division of Forestry, a bureau of information 

 on forestry matters. Dr. Franklin B. Hough, one of 

 the signers of the memorial, was appointed to the 

 agency. It is to be noted as characteristic of much 

 American legislation, that this agency was secured only 

 as a "rider" to an appropriation for the distribution of 

 seed. 



While these were the beginnings of an official recog- 

 nition of the subject by the federal government, private 

 enterprise and the separate States also started about 



