Forestry and Irrigation. 



Vol. VIII. 



OCTOBER, 1902. 



No. 10. 



NEWS AND NOTES. 



At the Yale 

 Forest School. 



Reports from the Yale 

 Forest School show that 

 the attendance this 3'ear 

 will be between 35 and 40. The teach- 

 ing force has been strengthened by the 

 addition of two new instructors Mr. 

 R. L. Marston and Mr. Alfred Aker- 

 man. A new wood-testing laboratory 

 has been the chief addition to the school 

 equipment. 



This new laboratory', the botanical 

 laboratory and herbarium, and the wood- 

 lot of 400 acres, of which the school has 

 charge, makes a very complete equip- 

 ment for instruction. 



New York Seventy students are reg-^ 

 State CoIIegfe istered at the New York' 

 of Forestry, State College of Forestry"; 

 for the collegiate year of:' 

 1 902- 1 903. Of these, 30 are old stu-- 

 dents and 40 are new. Eleven are grad- 

 uates of other departments of Cornell 

 Universit}' and of other colleges and . 

 universities. There are 2 seniors, 1 1 ' 

 juniors, 17 sophomores, 32 freshmen, i 

 and 3 specials. '% 



One special student is a native of the 

 Philippine Islands and a graduate of ; 

 St. Thomas College, at Manila. An- '' 

 other special student is from Eulenberg 

 Forestrj^ School, Austria. 



At Biltmore. The Biltmore Forest 

 School begins the work 

 of the new collegiate 3'ear with an attend- 

 ance of sixteen students, a larger num- 

 ber than ever before. The new building 

 in which the Forest Department of the 

 Biltmore Estate, as well as the school, 

 will hereafter be housed, has been com- 

 pleted. Mr. Ernest Bruncken, of Mil- 

 waukee, Wis., has joined the Biltmore 



staff and will teach forest botany, eco- 

 nomics, law, and allied subjects. Mr. 

 Bruncken is the author of ' ' North 

 American Forests and Forestry," he 

 was Secretar}^ of the late Wisconsin 

 Forest Commission, and is an able 

 lawyer. 



Last spring seven of the students ac- 

 companied Dr. Schenck on an excursion 

 through the forests of Germany and 

 Austria. During the summer, the stu- 

 dents were in camp on Pisgah Moun- 

 tain, where they had opportunities to 

 take part in the various forestal opera- 

 tions carried on under the direction of 

 Dr. Schenck. 



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Forest School 

 in Nebraska. 



The University of Ne- 

 braska, beginning with 

 the present collegiate 

 year, is offering instruction in forestr3^ 

 This work will be under the direction 

 of Dr. Charles E. Bessey, the well- 

 known botanist of the universit}'. 



A recent letter from Dr. Bessey con- 

 tains the information that a number of 

 men have taken up the course in for- 

 estry at Nebraska. Some of them are 

 well advanced in the scientific course, 

 and are now turning to forestry. It is 

 expected that five or six men will be 

 graduated from the forest department 

 in 1904. 



Michigan For- Instruction in forestry 

 est Schools. is to be given at both 



the Universit}' of Mich- 

 igan, at Ann Arbor, and the Michigan 

 Agricultural College, at Lansing, be- 

 ginning with the present collegiate year. 

 The courses in forestry at the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan will be under the di- 

 rection of Prof. C. A. Davis. These 

 courses are open onl}- to students who 



