Courses in Forestry. 



OPPORTUNITIES AND FACILITIES 



By referring to the University Calendar for 1904-5, it will be seen 

 that facilities for pursuing the fundamental and accessory studies 

 of languages, mathematics, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, etc., 

 are amply provided for. 



For field work the vicinity of Ann Arbor offers the best of opportuni- 

 ties. Convenient rural street car systems take the student, at very 

 moderate cost, to a variety of hardwood and swamp forests, where all 

 conditions from the virgin woods to the slash are met with, and where 

 a study of the results of good and bad work are well calculated to pre- 

 pare the student for his future task. In addition, a few hours' ride by 

 steam car suffices to reach the pineries of the Southern Peninsula, the 

 home of the famous Michigan pine, where cut-over lands, dotted here 

 and there with tracts of good pine, and occasionally by patches of sec- 

 ond growth, present the many conditions of the great problem of refor- 

 estation and offer reliable hints for future management. 



To introduce the student into the actual business of caring for 

 such lands and their improvement, it is the intention to have him par- 

 take of the real work of caring for the State and University lands, and 

 thus begin, under proper supervision, to practice what he has learned. 

 In the forestry laboratory students receive instruction in forest 

 botany, timber physics, structure of woods, and certain features of 

 wood technology, as well as in forest measurement and the methods of 

 study of the growth of timber. A good collection of wood specimens, 

 sections of trees, and herbarium material is provided and will be in- 

 creased as rapidly as possible. There is an ample supply of micro- 

 scopes, compasses, calipers, height measures, and other apparatus 

 for use in the laboratory and in the field. 



Through the kindness especially of the Lufkin Rule Company of 

 Saginaw; E. C. Atkins & Co., manufacturers of the famous Atkins 

 saws; the Champion Tool & Handle Works of Evart, Mich., and 

 others, a very ample and select set of woodsman's tools have been 

 added to the equipment of the school. 



A large album, presented by President J. D. Hawks of the D. & 

 M. Ry., and containing probably the most complete set of photographic 

 views of Michigan lumbering, forms one of the most valuable additions 

 to the forestry library. This latter, already of much value as a school 

 library, is steadily growing, a regular department fund having been 

 allowed for its increase. 



