THE FORESTER. 



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Through cooperation with the Sheffield 

 Scientific School and the Peabody Museum, 

 the use of the extensive botanical, minera- 

 logical and zoological collections of these 

 departments will be extended to the Forest 

 School. 



Provision is also made in the gift for a 

 Summer School of Forestry at Grey Tow- 

 ers, Milford, Pike County, Pa., the estate of 

 Mr. James W. Pinchot, a portion of which 

 has been placed at the disposal of the 

 Forest School for 21 years. The estate 

 contains a tract of woodland for practical 

 forest instruction, with open ground for 

 planting, and the donors have offered to 

 furnish such equipment as may be neces- 

 sary for the school. Mr. J. \V. Pinchot 

 has further generously agreed to place in 

 the public library in the village of Milford, 

 for the use of the school, a large collec- 

 tion of books relating to Forestry. 



It is the intention of the governing 

 board to select considerable areas of forest 

 land near New Haven where the students 

 will be given practical forest work through- 

 out the first year and first half of the sec- 

 ond year. The courses have been so ar- 

 ranged that the entire spring of the second 

 year will be spent in the field in Pennsyl- 

 vania and in the Adirondack Mountains of 

 New York. The tract of land at Milford, 

 Pa., will also be used for practical field 

 work during the first part of the spring 

 term of the second year. The land is 

 admirably adapted to forest instruction, 

 since it represents the average conditions 

 prevailing in the eastern hardwood re- 

 gion. Several owners of large tracts in 

 the Adirondacks have offered the use of 

 their land for the practical forest work of 

 the school, and have expressed their will- 

 ingness to construct and equip camps for 

 the accommodation of the students. 



The requirements of the course will be 

 strict in order to ensure the highest stan- 

 dard, and a degree will probably be 

 granted by the university, though this has 

 not been definitely settled. Though pri- 

 marily for graduate students, it has been 

 decided that under exceptional circum- 

 stances students who are not candidates 

 for a (k-gree, but who can show their fit- 

 ness to pursue the courses given in the 



Forest School, may be admitted withoi 

 examination. It will be the policy of th 

 governing board, however, to encourag 

 the students to take the full course at th 

 Forest School, rather than a special c 

 partial course ; and those students wh 

 wish to take a short course in forestn 

 and are unable to pass the entrance e> 

 animations to the Yale Forest School, wi 

 be advised to avail themselves of th 

 privileges offered by the Summer Schoc 

 at Milford, which is intended to me< 

 their special requirements. 



Graduates of colleges or scientific school 

 of high standing will be admitted withoi 

 examination provided they can show th 

 requisite knowledge of botany, geolog) 

 and inorganic chemistry. Candidates wh 

 are not graduates from collegiate institi 

 tions of high standing will be require 

 to pass an examination in the variov 

 branches of mathematics, botany, geo 

 ogy, chemistry, physics, German c 

 French, English and political economy 

 Examinations for entrance may be take 

 in June, in any of the cities from Main 

 to California, where the tests are held fc 

 admission to other departments of Yale. 



The regular course covers a period c 

 two years. The subjects have been s 

 arranged that nearly all the preliminai 

 work is completed in the first yea: 

 Enough technical forestry is, howeve: 

 given during the first year to enable th 

 students to make silvicultural studies, t 

 investigate the growth and production c 

 trees and forests, to establish forest plant; 

 tions, and to make thinnings and otht 

 classes of cuttings. The second year 

 devoted to advanced technical \vork_in tl 

 class room and in the field. 



The purpose of the Summer School : 

 Milford is primarily to provide instructio 

 for those who can not attend the Fore: 

 School at New Haven. The latter is 

 graduate school and the strict requiremen 

 for admission will probably exclude man 

 who have not had the requisite trainin 

 but who may wish to take a general court 

 in forestrv. Such students mav be class 



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fied as follows : i. Owners of woodland: 

 2. Forest rangers. 3. Teachers an 

 others who wish to acquire a gener; 



