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THE FORESTER. 



September, 



THE FIRST SESSION OF THE YALE SUMMER 

 SCHOOL OF FORESTRY.* 



By George D. Seymour. 



IMPRESSIONS OF A VISITOR. 



THE Yale Summer School of Forestry 

 at Milford, Pike County, Pa., has 

 completed a very successful inaug- 

 ural session. Twenty-seven students were 

 enrolled, twenty men and seven women. 

 Of these students six were from New York 

 state, six from Massachusetts, five from 

 Connecticut, three from the District of 



of the Sheffield Scientific 

 one Harvard Sophomore. 



Junior class 

 School, and 



Among the women at the Summer School 

 was the Associate Professor of Botany 

 in Wellesley College, who has a Ph.D. 

 degree from Zurich, and is well known 

 for her studies in systematic botany. The 

 women were quartered in the hotels or 



Courtesy Yale Alumni Weekly. 

 LECTURE HALL AND LABORATORY, YALE SUMMER SCHOOL OF FORESTRY ; MILFORD, PA. 



Columbia, two from Pennsylvania, two 

 from Maryland, and one each from New 

 Hampshire, Ohio and South Carolina. 



Among the students were three Yale 

 graduates, two undergraduates in the 



*The text and illustrations of this article are 

 reprinted here through the courtesy of the Yale 

 Alumni Weekly. 



in cottages in the village. The men 

 were located in a camp on high ground 

 overlooking the beautiful valley of the 

 Delaware, and about a quarter of a mile 

 distant from the famous falls of the Saw- 

 kill River. 



A more healthful location for a camp 

 could scarcely have been found. Each 



