NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF FORESTRY 



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Photo by Hugh P. Baker. 



LYMAN HALL OF SCIENCE, THE HOME OF THE NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF 

 FORESTRY AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY. THE COLLEGE HAS AMPLE QUARTERS 

 IN THIS NEW BUILDING. 



developments and for their instructional 

 value. 



The College, through numerous trol- 

 ley and steam lines running in every 

 direction from Syracuse, has easy ac- 

 cess to a wide territory in which there 

 are unusual examples of different for- 

 est floras, forest conditions, and logging 

 and lumbering operations. In its near- 

 ness to the Adirondack forest, where 

 the Conservation Commission is doing 

 such splendid work in reforestation, of 

 extensive areas of waste lands where 

 reforestation is greatly needed, and 

 large logging and manufacturing opera- 

 tions, there is no more strategic center 

 anywhere in respect to the solving of 

 forestry problems, than that of the 

 New York State College of Forestry. 



THE TEACHING STAFF OF THE COLLEGF, 



That the preliminary work of organi- 

 zation might be begun at once and that 



arrangements might be made for in- 

 structional work during 1911-12, the 

 Board of Trustees appointed Dr. Wil- 

 liam L. Bray, Chief of the Department 

 of Botany in the University, as Acting 

 Dean of the College. Dr. Bray has not 

 only had an unusually strong training 

 in Botany, but for several years carried 

 on investigational work in Western 

 Texas in co-operation with the United 

 States Forest Service, which resulted 

 in the publication of valuable reports 

 on forest conditions in our Southwest. 

 In February, 1912, Dr. Hugh P. 

 Baker was elected to the position of 

 Dean of the College of Forestry, and 

 he entered upon the work on the first 

 of April. Dr. Baker has a Bachelor's 

 Degree from the Michigan Agricultural 

 College, a degree of Master of Forestry 

 from the Yale Forest School and in 

 1910, after a residence of one and one- 

 half years in Germany, received the 

 degree of Doctor of Economics from 



