14 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

subject matter as the preliminary announcement. There was a 
more detailed account of the field work, and a list of the seven 
students in attendance. 
During the year the School received in gifts to its equipment 
a splendid collection of axes and a large number of wood-work- 
ing tools from W. D. Simmons of St. Louis, Mo., and a valuable 
collection of saws from H. C. Atkins of Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. 
Toumey gave his herbarium containing two thousand five 
hundred species of indigenous trees and shrubs to the School. 
The library was enlarged through the gift of three hundred 
and twenty-five volumes from Gifford Pinchot. ) 
I9OI—1902 
Early in 1901 an illustrated circular announcing the Yale 
Summer School of Forestry was published. The course as 
planned, and later carried out, covered a period of eight weeks 
beginning July 8, 1901. No entrance examinations were 
required, but no one under seventeen years of age was admitted. 
The teaching staff consisted of the director and the assistant 
professor. The following courses were offered: introduction to 
forestry, silviculture, forest botany, forest measurements and 
forest protection. Twenty-seven students were enrolled, seven 
of whom were women. The latter had all the privileges of the 
School with the exception of living and boarding in camp. 
At the opening of the regular course in 1901 the previous 
year’s class of seven members was augmented by three men 
from the Division of Forestry. The Junior class had a member- 
ship of twenty-one. The School was now for the first time in 
full operation, and the Faculty was called upon to give instruc- 
tion in all the courses offered in the curriculum. In many 
respects, from the standpoint of instruction, it was the most 
critical period in the history of the School. With more than 
four times as many students as the previous year, and with the 
technical courses of the Senior year given for the first time, 
the burden of instruction was very great. The following courses 
were added: forest entomology, forest administration and law, 
and forest administration abroad. 
During the second year the field work was more fully organ- 
ized. A year before an agreement was made by the School 
