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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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DR. JOSEPH TRIMBLE ROTHROCK, 



COMMISSIONER OF FORESTRY FOR PENNSYLVANIA. 



PENNSYLVANIA is the first of our states to adopt and put in operation a rational forest 

 policy. The people and the law-making body of the state are thoroughly in sympathy 

 with the idea and act in unison. This highly desirable state of affairs is in a great 

 measure due to the ability, tact, and great public spirit of Dr. Joseph T. Rothrock, who has 

 been Commissioner of Forestry since the creation of that office. He has devoted himself 

 unselfishly to this great work, and the best evidence of his success is the general confidence he 

 has won from the public and the free hand he is given in forest matters by the state authorities. 

 Dr. Rothrock was born at McVeytown, Pa., on April 9, 1839. He graduated at Harvard with 

 the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1864, and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the 

 University of Pennsylvania in 1867. Dr. Rothrock was captain of Company E, 2oth Pennsyl- 

 vania Cavalry, during the Civil War, and was wounded at Fredericksburg. In 1877 he was 

 appointed Professor of Botany at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of " Vacation 

 Cruisings," "Botany of the Wheeler Expedition," "Flora of Alaska,"" Revision of North 

 American Guarinese," Proceedings of the American Academy; and Pennsylvania Forestry 

 Reports, 1895, 1896, 1897. He has from the first been one of the most active promoters of the 

 Pennsylvania Forestry Association, which organization includes in its membership several 

 thousand of the most public-spirited citizens of the state, and which has been a great factor in 

 moulding public opinion in connection with forest matters. 



