1 6 Announcement of Botany and Forestry. 



EQUIPMENT. 



The location of the University of Michigan is most favorable, 

 in many respects, for the practical study of Forestry. Ann Arbor 

 is situated in a . region formerly heavily wooded with broad- 

 leaved timber trees, and there are, in the immediate vicinity, 

 many easily accessible tracts of the forests typical of the region. 

 Large areas of sprout and young seedling forest are also to be 

 found near by, while within a few hours' ride lie the remnants 

 of the great pineries for which Michigan has been famous, and 

 thousands of acres of stump land, both of pine and hard-wood 

 forests, with the interesting silvicultural problems which they 

 present, are even nearer by. The state within its borders also 

 furnishes numerous examples of various types of lumbering op- 

 erations, from those supplying only small portable saw mills to 

 the large establishments cutting millions of feet each year, and 

 recently more than ten thousand acres of land in the eastern part 

 of the state have been donated to the University for the purpose 

 of forest experiment. 



Because of its close connection with the work of the Depart- 

 ment of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the facilities of the 

 University in Botany, Zoology, Geology, Chemistry and Mineral- 

 ogy and the extensive museum collections and libraries illustrat- 

 ing these subjects are available for use by students in Forestry. 

 The library of the University is supplied with current forestry 

 periodicals and a considerable number of standard works upon 

 the important phases of Forestry, which number will be con- 

 stantly increased. A collection of woods, material for illustrating 

 diseases of trees and timber, lantern slides and other essential 

 equipment for the work of instruction in the subjects embraced 

 in Forestry are either at hand or in process of accumulation for 

 use during the ensuing year. 



The courses in Forestry, as planned, will cover two full years 

 of work, the year being divided into semesters. The work 

 of the first year is arranged with a view of allowing a certain 

 amount of latitude in supplementary courses, in order that de- 

 ficiencies may be made up, where tfyis is necessary. In all courses, 

 actual illustrations in the field will be used whenever practicable, 

 and a considerable portion of the last half of the second year's 

 work will be devoted to the study of forest conditions and prob- 



