of greatest activity and usefulness. 

 His history is not unlike that of 

 many others who have worked their 

 way from a humble station, but 

 throughout those years he main- 

 tained the same jovial spirit, ths 

 same enthusiasm and the same kindly 

 regard for those around him. 

 His untimely death takes away 



from the small family of foresters 

 one of its most efficient members, 

 but the memory of his personality 

 will be an inspiration and his infec- 

 tious cheerfulness will be cherished 

 by all who knew him. He is sur- 

 vived by his wife and one child. 

 F. R. MOODY. 

 Class 1906. 



Why Not Have A Forestry Museum ? 



This is a question that should be 

 of vital interest to every forestry 

 student in the University of Mich- 

 igan. It should interest even more 

 the men who are now actively at 

 work in the field, since they are in 

 a better position to realize the neces- 

 sity of such an institution. In the 

 following paragraphs an attempt is 

 made to explain what a iorestr./ 

 museum is, what exhibits should be 

 included and how these may be 

 obtained, and what special benefits 

 may be derived from them. 



A forestry museum is a room or 

 series of rooms in which are exhib- 

 ited the botanical, zoological, and 

 geological specimens of primary 

 ^importance to foresters. Every one 

 who has studied botany, zoology, 

 and mineralogy can think of hun- 

 dreds of objects he either has not 

 seen at all or has had no opportu- 

 nity of studying for any extended 

 period of time. A forestry museum 

 enables the student to examine *t 

 his own convenience the objects that 

 are of greatest interest and import- 

 ance to him, and this without the 

 necessity of picking them out from 

 a large collection of specimens, most 

 of which do not come within his 

 special province. 



The writer is not sufficiently 

 acquainted with the materials used 

 by foresters in their studies of bot- 

 any, geology, and minerology to 

 state what exhibits can be procured 

 for the visualizing of those subiects, 

 and will therefore limit himself to 

 the science of zoology. All forest- 

 ers need a good foundation knowl- 

 edge of zoological principles and a 

 general idea of the larger groups of 



arimals, their chief anatomical and 

 physiological characteristics and their 

 ecological relations. Besides this, 

 every man who goes out into the 

 field should possess a detailed knowl- 

 edge of the relations of insects, fish, 

 birds, and mammals to the forest, 

 to each other, to other kinds of 

 animals, and to man. 



Few people, who have not read 

 books and pamphlets on forest 

 entomology or have not seen afflicted 

 forests, realize the widespread devas- 

 tations caused by insects. It is not 

 the writer's object in this short art- 

 icle to point out the importance of 

 this subject. That can only be 

 accomplished by means of a course 

 of lectures. The point that needs 

 emphasis here is that near Ann 

 Arbor, Michigan, there is practically 

 no opportunity of seeing the nature 

 and extent of the injury done by 

 insects, or even to get enough 

 material of the right kind to use 

 in the laboratory. In a forestry 

 museum there would be show cases 

 containing preserved specimens of 

 every stage in the life histories of 

 the most notorious insect pests, as 

 well as specimens of twigs, bran- 

 ches and woods showing the char- 

 acter of injury done by each stage. 

 On the walls would be hung large 

 photographs of nurseries, trees, and 

 forests illustrating the nature and 

 extent of the depredations. The 

 forestry museum at the Universitv 

 of Michigan will depend entirely 

 upon the men in the field for its 

 exhibits. Several of the' alumni 

 have already sent in valuable lots of 

 preserved insects and sections of 

 trees showing the kind of injury 



