PROFESSOR HENRY SOLON GRAVES, 



DIRECTOR OF THE YALE FOREST SCHOOL, 



PROFESSOR HENRY SOLON GRAVES, who has conducted the Yale Forest School in 

 an able manner from its beginning, was born at Marietta, Ohio, May 3, 1871. He pre- 

 pared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. , and graduated from Yale LTniversity 

 in 1892. The following year he spent teaching at King's School, Stamford, Conn., during which 

 time he also began the study of forestry. Having decided to take up forestry as a profession, 

 he spent a year at Harvard, and then went to Germany, where he studied forestry at the 

 University of Munich. He first took up active forest work in the United States in 1895 with 

 Mr. Gifford Pinchot, then a consulting forester. Professor Graves engaged in work in the 

 Adirondacks, and soon made himself an authority on forest matters pertaining to that region. 



In the fall of 1898 he became assistant chief of the Division of Forestry, U. S Department 

 of Agriculture, a position in which he showed ability of a high order. In 1900 Mr. Graves left 

 the Division of Forestry to become director of the Yale Forest School. 



In the brief time that has elapsed since then, the school has shown remarkable progress 

 under his direction, and is graduating annually carefully trained foresters. Professor Graves' 

 work at the Yale Forest School has more than kept pace with the high promise shown in his 

 early efforts. He is a tireless worker, and combines with enthusiasm for his profession an 

 unusually intimate knowledge of the forest conditions and problems of the United States. 



Professor Graves has contributed a number of writings on forest subjects. Among these 

 maybe mentioned "The White Pine," written in collaboration with Mr. Gifford Pinchot; 

 " Practical Forestry in the Adirondacks," and the "Woodsman's Handbook," which is one of 

 the most useful of American forest publications. 



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