ANNOUNCEMENT 



It is our intention to publish each year a Forest Club Annual. 

 This book, issued by the Forest Club of the 'University of Ne- 

 braska, will contain articles on technical and practical forestry 

 written by our student members and alumni, and is intended 

 to be made up almost wholly of individual student articles. 

 Other articles on local questions pertaining to forestry, by lead- 

 ing professional men of the state, may be included from time 

 to time. We plan also to embody in our publication the results 

 of a number of experiments that are being worked out by the 

 Forestry Department. 



In doing this work we are influenced strongly by the fact 

 that many valuable and interesting observations are rendered 

 non-available to foresters and forestry students because there 

 is no place for their publication. By publishing an annual we 

 intend to remedy the defect for ourselves and place our obser- 

 vations where they will be of use to us and to others. The 

 fact that articles will be published ought to give a strong impulse 

 to scientific observation among the students who have frequent 

 chances to observe things which are quite valuable but have not 

 been thoroughly investigated by scientists. The student mak- 

 ing such observations often does so in a careless manner. When 

 he knows that his work may be put in permanent form he will 

 do it more thoroughly. Thus we hope to influence the student 

 to do careful detailed work. 



The support of a publication of this nature must be volun- 

 tary. Its very nature prevents it being self-supporting and 

 makes such support undesirable, for a publication can only be- 

 come self-supporting by being made popular which is always 

 attended by a reduction in merit. In order to publish our 

 book we have decided to establish patrons who will be asked to 

 contribute to its support. All these patrons are men interested 

 directly or indirectly in forestry, who have the interest of the 

 publication[at heart,|for they believe it is useful work in a good 

 cause. ^Realizing that the financial support determines the 

 existence of our Annual we give the entire credit for its publica- 

 tion to our patrons. 



