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training in forestry and was formerly the head of the government forestry 

 work in the Hawaiian Islands and hence has had a long experience in 

 tropical forestry. 



C. SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, THE NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF FORESTRY, 



SYRACUSE, NEW YORK. 



Syracuse University is situated at Syracuse, New York, a large^city 

 located in the western part of New York State and about eight hours' 

 ride from New York City. The college of forestry, Syracuse University, 

 is the only one that has brought practically all the technical forestry 

 subjects and those allied to them under one administrative control. It is 

 the most specialized of all the forest schools. In equipment and in 

 number of instructors and students it is the largest forest school in the 

 country. Its faculty, consisting of some 40 instructors, is divided among 

 the following departments of the school: Silviculture, wood technology, 

 forest engineering, forest utilization, forest botany, forest entomology, 

 forest zoology, landscape engineering, forest chemistry, and economics. 

 The school offers a four-year course in general forestry leading to the 

 degree of bachelor of science and a five-year course leading to the degree 

 of master of forestry. It also offers courses which lead to the degrees of 

 master of science and doctor of philosophy, and maintains an excellent 

 department, located in the Adirondack Mountains, for the training of 

 forest rangers. 



D. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY, FOREST HILLS, 



BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



The department of forestry of Harvard University is devoted wholly to 

 instruction in graduate work and to forest research. The special graduate 

 courses deal with dendrology, silviculture, and forest management, the 

 lumber business, and advanced work in forest physiology. The uni- 

 versity work is centered at Forest Hills, a beautiful suburban region of 

 Boston. The research in forestry and the field work are conducted at the 

 Harvard Forest located at Petersham, Massachusetts. 



E. PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE, SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE, DEPART- 



MENT OF FORESTRY, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA. 



Pennsylvania State College is located in the town of State College in 

 the State of Pennsylvania. It is beautifully situated on a plateau of 

 1,200 feet in elevation. 



The enrollment of the department of forestry is one of the largest in 

 the United States. There are five instructors directly connected with 

 the department. A four-year course leading to a degree of bachelor of 

 science is offered. The instruction is of very high grade, and the grad- 

 uates of the institution occupy positions of importance in the profession. 



