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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Here are found many types of trees, from 

 the pine lands and upland hardwoods to 

 the swampy conditions of the Mississippi 

 bottomlands. To the north lie the prairies 

 and to the west the great plains each with 

 its particular forest problem. 



Located in the College of Agriculture, the 

 forest school will have the advantages that 

 forest schools in similar land grant colleges 

 possess, of having the fundamental sciences 

 taught in long established departments of 

 the university, and of calling on the other 

 colleges for instruction in such subjects 

 as surveying, engineering, entomology, 

 economics, etc. 



Twelve weeks of the course will be 

 spent in practical forest work in the Ozark 

 Mountains on the university forest. Here 

 the work will consist in estimating tim- 

 ber, investigating lumber operations, mak- 

 ing topographic and logging maps, and in 

 marking timber for cutting. It is planned 

 to acquire a portable sawmill so that the 

 students can make studies of the different 

 processes of a small sawmill operation and 

 become proficient in the handling of such 

 mills and in the manufacture of lumber. 



At Columbia a twenty-acre tract of young 

 timber has been devoted to the use of the 

 department of forestry as an experimental 

 and demonstration tract, and several acres 

 laid out for a forestry nursery. The uni- 

 versity owns many planted groves of forest 

 trees such as catalpa, black and honey lo- 

 cust, hackberry, ash, pecan, etc. 



One of the latest of the forest s^chools 

 to be established, the University of Mis- 

 souri Forest School already has a woods 

 equipment unsurpassed by any other. The 

 course will be developed along practical 

 lines, fitting students for professional for- 

 est work. 



Harvard Forest School 



In the September number of this maga- 

 zine, in a list of institutions giving instruc- 

 tion in forestry, the forest school of Har- 

 vard University was listed with the under- 

 graduate schools, its course being described 

 as a four years course in forestry in the 

 Lawrence Scientific School for the degree 

 of B. S. in forestry. In the same list the 

 school was properly treated as a graduate 

 school with a two years graduate course. 

 It should not have been included in the 

 undergraduate list. The Lawrence Scien- 

 tific School has been out of existence for 

 three years and no course in forestry is 

 given in Harvard to undergraduates. The 

 course in the Harvard graduate school 

 leads to the degree of M. F. and the school 

 is in the same class with the graduate 

 schools of Yale University and the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan. The list published iv 

 September was furnished by the Forest 

 Service and published without correction. 

 The Harvard Forest School was properly 

 listed in American Forestry's own list 

 published in December, 1910. 



