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on forestry, without attempting professional train- 

 ing, the object being mainly to give a general idea 

 of the natural history of forest growth and the mean- 

 ing and importance of forestry, and promoting 

 public interest in forest protection and silviculture. 

 Within a few years, however, it is to be expected 

 that professional courses will exist in many of 

 these institutions, and the flood of education will 

 pour its beneficent influence over our neglected 

 woodlands. 



A sufficient number 'of professionally educated 

 foresters, it appears, have gone forth from these 

 schools and are now at work in the United States 

 (including the Philippines) to justify the publication 

 of the first professional journal, the Forestry Quar- 

 terly, which made its appearance in the fall of 

 1902, published by students, alumni, and faculty of 

 the New York State College of Forestry. 



In this connection we should perhaps make also 

 special mention of the effort of Berea College in 

 Kentucky to furnish instruction in forestry to a 

 class of rangers. Indeed, there is now more need 

 to provide for this class of instruction, to rangers, 

 logging bosses, under-foresters, etc., than for a 

 multiplication of higher grade schools, nevertheless 

 the latter is evidently contemplated by a number 

 of colleges. 



In all these movements throughout the states, 

 the efforts of the American Forestry Association 

 and of the state associations may be recognized, 



