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in the first two years; while the more advanced work in plant physiology, a 

 study in the tissues of woody plants, and a lecture and laboratory course on 

 the origin, nature, and proi)erties of soils, is given in the third year just 

 preceding the study of silviculture. 



Preparation in rhetoric includes six courses covering three full years. 



In addition to this, reports on 

 various forestry subjects are 

 required throughout the whole 

 undergraduate work, besides a 

 thesis in the fifth year. Many 

 of the themes given in the 

 rhetoric courses are corrected 

 in the Forestry Department for 

 scientific accuracy and in the 

 Rhetoric Department for Eng- 

 lish. 



It is only through the har- 

 monious relations of the various 

 departments and colleges that 

 the sequence of courses is made 

 valuable. The College of Engi- 

 neering has granted special 

 courses in drawing, timber, 

 physics, and surveying, which 

 are adapted to the needs of the 

 forester only. Departments of 

 Zoology and Entomology offer 

 courses which apply to the for- 

 ests from economic viewpoints. 

 Several courses in botany have 

 been inaugurated especially for 

 foresters ; among them are in- 

 cluded a course on the develop- 

 ment of the tissues of woody 

 plants, a study of the structure 

 (if important woods with rela- 

 tion to their identity and their 

 physical properties, courses in forest ecology and forest mycology. 



The apparatus for laboratory and field work in the Forestry Department 

 is closely interwoven with that of the Botany Department. The well-equipped 

 laboratories and green houses, and the herbarium of about 300,000 specimens 

 belonging to the Botany Department are thrown open to the use of the 

 foresters. In addition to these concessions, the Forestry Department main- 

 tains a separate green-house for experimental classwork and a number of 

 working collections of various parts of forest trees. 



For the study of woods there is a type collection of all of the important 

 and a great many of the minor species, labeled and placed where they are 

 readily accessible to the students. Independent of this a working collection 

 of all of the economic woods is maintained, containing twenty-five to fifty 

 specimens of each kind, for use in identification and study of structure. ]Many 

 sections of the logs of our timber trees allow the student to investigate the 

 structure and growth of bark, sap-and-heart-wood and annual-rings. The 

 woods laboratory also contains collections of stained and variously finished 



FIG. 3. PART OF THE FOREST FUNGI COLLECTION 



