AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 21 

Herman H. Chapman, M.F. ’04, of the Forest Service, was 
employed as assistant during the winter and spring terms. A 
course in State Forest law was given during the winter by Mr. 
Chapman. In April Mr. Marston resigned to enter the lumber 
business in Maine, and the field work in lumbering as formerly 
conducted by locating the students in lumber camps for a period 
of three weeks after the Thanksgiving recess was abandoned. 
The Senior field work of the spring term was conducted at 
Waterville, N. H., on a tract of 22,000 acres owned by the 
International Paper Company. The topographic work was under 
the direction of Henry Gannett, geographer of the United States 
Geological Survey. The forest work was conducted by Mr. 
Chapman. 
The field work in silviculture was better organized, the autumn 
term being devoted to silvical excursions and investigations in 
the woods about New Haven and the remainder of the year to 
thinnings, improvement cuttings, nursery work, seeding and 
planting. 
The importance of lumbering as a part of the curriculum 
was recognized by the National Lumber Manufacturers’ Asso- 
ciation at their annual meeting in 1905, and they voted to 
raise a fund to endow a chair of lumbering. Sixty thousand 
dollars was immediately pledged, and in the autumn turned 
over to the treasurer of the University, and in 1910 an additional 
forty thousand dollars was received. This fund has been of 
great value to the School as it made possible the appointment 
of R. C. Bryant of the Forest Service to take charge of the 
work in lumbering. Mr. Bryant began his work in September, 
1906. 
During the year an Advisory Board was appointed from the 
graduates and proved very important in furthering the interests 
of the School and bringing the alumni into closer touch with 
its activities. The members of the first Advisory Board were 
G. H. Myers, M.F. ’o2, J. G. Peters, M.F. ’03, and W. B. 
Greeley, M.F. ’o4. 
1906-1907 
The year 1906 marked a long step forward in improving the 
curriculum. This was made possible through the addition to 
