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between the offices and a splendid opportunity forout-ot 

 door meetings of the Forestry Club. The six office 

 rooms have a total of 1,396 square feet of floor space, 

 and with the exception of the general office are uniform 

 in size and e qu i p ment A buzzer system connects them 

 and a standard Forest Service telephone line has been in- 

 Mailed between the general office and the laboratories 

 downstairs. 



The forestry laboratories occupy the entire north half 

 c-l the ground floor where there are thirteen rooms be- 

 sides two large rooms in the basement, the fifteen having 

 a total floor -pace of 4400 square feet. Also one of the 

 four large lecture rooms in the building has been as- 

 signed to the Forestry Division for its exclusive use. This 

 brings the number of forestry rooms to 22 with a total 

 floor space of 

 8900 square feet, 

 and apportioning 

 the cost of the 

 building accord- 

 ing to floor area, 

 makes an invest- 

 ment of $95.- 

 000 in the space 

 devoted to For- 

 estry. If instru- 

 ments, labora- 

 tory, Im'M and 

 misce Uaneous 

 equipment arc- 

 included, the 

 total invested in 

 forestry at Cal- 

 ifornia, is ap- 

 p r o x i m a t ely 

 $n 0,000. 



Before the 

 plans for the 

 building were 

 finished the for- 

 estry space was 

 a p p o r t i o ned 

 among the mem- 

 bers of the staff, each of whom designed or specified 

 equipment which would best suit his particular needs. As 

 a result there are several features worthy of special men- 

 tion. All of the storage space for equipment, with a 

 few exceptions, is provided for in units of three types 

 but uniform size, which can be taken down and set up 

 in any combination designed for a particular room. The 

 exceptions are : the lantern slide collection which is 

 housed in four special units allowing the viewing of 

 sixty slides at a time and providing space for 2,400 slides ; 

 the herbarium and tree seed collections, for which insect 

 proof steel cases are used ; the instrument room equip- 

 ment, which is of special design, and the store room. 



The general forestry laboratory where most of the 

 classes are held, is fitted with lecturer's desk and twenty- 

 five chairs, desks for forty students, a revolving map 



rack, stereopticon and screen and storage units. Across 

 the hall is a room 20x40 feet which will be devoted to 

 models showing logging machinery and how it is used. 

 A l>oard platform occupies the center of the room, on 

 which can be built up and taken down complete donkey 

 setups in miniature to demonstrate methods of stringing 

 line and similar points, Class cases about the walls will 

 contain electrically propelled models of standard logging 

 machines, while several manufacturers have provided 

 wall displays of saws, axes, peavies, wire rope and other 

 logging tools. 



Between the logging room and the instrument room 

 are four research laboratories which can be turned over 

 to students who may be working out problems in any 

 one of the four major branches of forestry. One of 



these contains 

 the beginning of 

 a collection of 

 forest tree seeds 

 of the world, 

 steel seed stor- 

 age units, two 

 standard germi- 

 nating ovens and 

 other equipment 

 n e c e ssary for 

 e x p e rimenting 

 with forest tree 

 seeds. Another 

 of these rooms 

 is temp orarily 

 fitted up as a 

 meeting place 

 for the Fores- 

 try Club. 



Across the 

 hall again is the 

 wood technology 

 aboratory, con- 

 taining a very 

 complete collec- 

 speci- 

 niens of wood 

 from Japan, China and the Philippine Islands, as well 

 as from North and South America. Display cases in this 

 room show special uses of wood and by-products of many 

 kinds. The wood collection contains exhibits of several 

 foreign countries which were on display at the Panama- 

 Pacific Exposition and later presented to the Forestry 

 Division. The Hatch Collection of beautifully finished 

 specimens of Pacific Coast woods is an interesting fea- 

 ture of this room. Between the wood technology room 

 and the storeroom is the herbarium room containing, be- 

 sides the working herbarium in its steel cases, tree dis- 

 play cabinets which have been objects of much interest 

 and favorable comment. These are vertical units of four 

 sections behind glass doors and display typical bark foli- 

 age and fruit, seedling and lumber specimens for each of 

 the 100 most important timber trees of North America. 



ONE SET OF TREE DISPLAY CABINETS IN THE FORESTRY HERBARIUM 

 Each vertical unit shows typical bark, foliage and fruit, seedling and lumber specimens of an important t> 011 ' 

 timber tree, while the map above indicates its geographic distribution. 



