412 United States. 



States, and published a magnificent North American 

 Sylva in three volumes, left in recognition of the hos- 

 pitalities received, two legacies of $20,000 for the "ex- 

 tension and progress of agriculture and more especially 

 of silviculture in the United States," which bequests 

 became available in 1870. The American Philosophi- 

 cal Society at Philadelphia, a trustee of one of the 

 legacies, has devoted its income to beautification of 

 Fairmount Park, providing a few lectures on forest 

 botany and forestry, and collecting a forestry library, 

 while the other legacy has been used by the Massachu- 

 setts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture to aid 

 the botanical gardens at Harvard and the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum, besides offering the prizes for tree planting 

 referred to above. 



3. Development of a Forest Policy. 



This first period of desultory efforts to create public 

 opinion on behalf of a more conservative use of forest 

 resources was followed by a more systematic propa- 

 ganda, in which the Division of Forestry, growing out 

 of the agency in the Department of Agriculture, took 

 the lead. This it did officially as well as by furnishing 

 information to the officers of the American Forestry As- 

 sociation, soon after organized, with a view of educating 

 public opinion. 



The first forestry association had been formed on 

 January 12, 1876, in St. Paul, Minn., largely through 

 the efforts of Leonard B. Hodges, who was the first to 

 make plantations in the prairies for the St. Paul and 

 Pacific Eailroad. This association was aided by State 



