Courses in Forestry 



JACOB REIGHARD, Pn.B., Professor of Zoology. 

 HARRY BURNS HUTCHINS, LL.D., Professor of Law 



and Dean of the Department of Law. 

 TAMES HENRY BREWSTER, Pn.B, LL.B., Professor of 



Conveyancing. 902 Baldwin Avenue. 



HORACE LAFAYETTE WILGUS, M.S., Professor of Law. 

 ROBERT EMMET BUNKER. A.M., LL.B, Professor of 



Law. 



FRED NEWTON SCOTT, Pn.D., Professor of Rhetoric. 

 MAX WTNKLER, PH.D., Professor of the German Lan- 

 guage and Literature. 

 MOSES GOMBERG, Sc.D, Junior Professor of Organic 



Chemistry. noi East University Avenue. 



FREDERICK CHARLES NEWCOMBE, Pn.D, Junior 



Professor of Botany. 

 EDWARD DAVID JONES, PH.D., Assistant Professor of 



Commerce and Industry. 

 ALFRED C. LANE, Pn.D... State Geologist Lecturer on 



Economic Geology. 



OBJECTS 



In establishing Courses in Forestry in the University of 

 Michigan, in June, 1901, the principal aims of the University 

 were as follows: 



To promote Forestry in the State of Michigan. 

 To assist in the proper care of State Forest lands. 

 To care for the University Forest Reserves. 

 To train young men to forestry work. 



To promote forestry, or the right use and improvement of 

 our woods and woodlands, the University is expected to co-oper- 

 ate with the State Forest Commission in bringing the important 

 subject of Forestry before the people of our State through publi- 

 cation and addresses, and also to assist owners of woodlands with 

 advice and with personal direction on the ground. 



At the present time the State of Michigan has over six mil- 

 lion acres of lands which have reverted for non-payment of 

 taxes. A small portion of these lands has already been set aside 

 as forest reserves, and the friends of forestry are urging the im- 

 mediate increase of these reserves and the establishment of a 

 permanent State forest. Though but one year in operation, the 

 work of the forest reserves is well under way. A "forester" and 

 two regular "forest rangers" watch over the interests of the State 

 and furnish to these wild lands the much needed protection 

 against fire and other injury. In addition, some improvements 

 have been undertaken. Under the direction of the professor of 



