THE STUDY OF FORESTRY. 5 



A. YALS UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF FORESTRY, NEW HAVEN, 

 CONNECTICUT. 



New Haven, Connecticut, the seat of Yale University, is a thriving 

 city located on Long Island Sound and about two hours' ride from New 

 York City. The school of forestry, a part of Yale University, is the oldest 

 of the American forest schools. It has long been a recognized leader in 

 forest education in the United States. Established in 1900, itsjong list 

 of graduates has supplied the heads of a number of the other forest 

 schools in the United States and a majority of their teaching force. 

 The present Chief of the Forest Service of the United States is a graduate 

 of this school and the present dean of the school was formerly the Chief 

 of the Forest Service. Two of its graduates have been at the head of the 

 bureau of forestry of the Philippines, one holding that position at the 

 present time. Many of the State foresters are Yale men. The teaching 

 force of the Yale School of Forestry consists of seven men, each of whom 

 is a leader in his specialty. Many of the textbooks on forestry have been 

 written by these men. 



The Yale School of Forestry is cosmopolitan in character; she numbers 

 among her graduates students from Norway, South Africa, India, the 

 Philippines, China, Japan, South America, Australia, and Canada. It 

 is the only school that offers special courses in tropical forestry. The 

 instructors in lumbering and tropical forestry have practiced their pro- 

 fession in tropical countries. The professor of forest products is devoting 

 much of his time to the study and classification of tropical American 

 woods. 



Yale offers a two-year course in forestry for those who hold a degree 

 from a collegiate institution, leading to the degree of master of forestry. 

 Undergraduates of the university may take certain courses in forestry 

 and complete their professional work in one year after graduation. 



B. CORNELL UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, 

 DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY, ITHACA, NEW YORK. 



The first forest school of collegiate grade in the United States was es- 

 tablished at Cornell University but was suspended for some time and then 

 reorganized as a department in the college of agriculture. Cornell 

 University is situated in the western part of the State of New York in 

 the city of Ithaca, an eight-hour ride from New York City. The forestry 

 instruction given at Cornell is of very high grade. Besides a full under- 

 graduate course of four years, leading to a degree of bachelor of forestry, 

 there is a graduate course of one year, on the completion of which a 

 degree of master of forestry is granted. There are six instructors who 

 devote all of their time to purely forestry subjects. The faculty and 

 many of the graduates of this school occupy eminent places in the pro- 

 fession. The present dean was one of the first in the country to receive 



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