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post-graduate year the matter of handling tlie forest according to good business 

 methods Is accompanied bv a study of the policy of the nations in caring for 

 their forest resources. I Kiriug the i>ast seven years the working of the schedule 

 ha.s been watched closely and a few changes have been made to bring about a 

 more logical and efficient sequence of studies. The correlation of subjects may 

 be shown best by considcM-ing various courses as they pass from one year 

 to the next constituting more or less closely related groups. 



Botany forms, i)erliaps, one of the strongest groups in its progression of 

 courses. In the first year the structure of plants in general and a survey of the 

 plant kingdom from the lowest forms through the flowering plants is studied. 

 This is followed in the second year by the principles of classificatiou of the 

 flowering plants, with special stress laid on a study of the grasses. After this 



FIG. 2. ONE SECTION OF DRAWERS CONTAINING A WORKING COLLECTION OF CONES 



acquaintance with the plant families, the student, during the next two years, 

 takes up work on the functions and life processes of various parts of plants, 

 the structure and development of tissues and lastly the relation of plants to 

 their environment. A great deal of attention is paid to botany, especially 

 systematic and ecological, for it is felt that a good foundation in these subjects 

 as well as in j)hysiology and anatomy, is well worth the time of the forester. 

 The relation and se(iuence of courses leading to the advanced work in 

 forestry may be shown in two groups. One, with forest mensuration as the 

 climax, includes physical geography, mathematics, and lettering and drawing 

 in the first two years as jireparatory to surveying, which is followed by forest 

 mensuration in the fourth year. The other group, with a rather complex 

 course in silviculture at the end, comprises a number of courses not closely 

 related to each other but all needed for the final work. The fundamental 

 subects in chemistry, geography, jthysics, entomology and botany are given 



