On the hike up the hill. Field Day, 1910. 



him a diploma but the high school of 

 the woods and plains and his own 

 untiring study. He passed all the 

 entrance examinations, according to 

 a now venerable professor of the 

 University who took great interest in 

 this unusual student, with the best 

 papers which he had ever seen at 

 the University. In consequence. 

 Roth entered the University, not only 

 with a clear record, but with ad- 

 vanced standing, /-vt the University 

 he worked to support himself, and 

 took one year more than the usual 

 four, being graduated in 1890. 



He had already, in 1887, been ap- 

 pointed curator of the University 

 Museum, and this position he now 

 retained, until 1893. He had also 

 in 1888 begun the study of timber 

 physics under the direction of Pro- 

 fessor V. M. Spalding of the Uni- 

 versity and B. E. Fernow, Chief of 

 the then Division of Forestry of 

 the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. In the summer of 

 1892 he made a tour of the southern 

 pine regions, gathering his part of 

 the material which was soon after 

 published in Bulletin 13 of the Divi- 

 sion of Forestry on "The Timber 

 Pines of the Southern United 

 States." In 1893 he severed his 

 connection with the University Mu- 



seum, and gave his entire time from 

 then until 1898 to the Division of 

 Forestry. In this work he had a 

 most varied experience. The year 



1894 was spent in southern Wiscon- 

 sin, making a special study of log- 

 ging and of the kiln-drying of lum- 

 ber at the saw mills. The season of 



1895 was spent in the forests of the 

 Appalachian mountains, and 1896 in 

 the Red Lake country of Minnesota 

 in work on Indian forest lands. The 

 spring of 1897 was spent in a trip 

 through the southern coast forests, 

 from Virginia to Texas, studying 

 the bald cypress, and the fall of that 

 year in northern Wisconsin, en- 

 gaged in a study of the forest con- 

 ditions of that state whose results 

 later appeared as Bulletin 16 of the 

 Division of Forestry. 



In 1898 Dr. Fernow left his posi- 

 tion at the head of the Division of 

 Forestry to organize at Cornell Uni- 

 versity the first school of forestry 

 in the United States. And in that 

 undertaking he persuaded Mr. Roth 

 to accompany and help him, in the 

 position of assistant professor. In 

 this position Professor Roth found 

 opportunity to continue and extend 

 his intimate knowledge of the for- 

 ests as they actuallv are, making a 

 purvey during the summer of 1899 



