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the change to well-organized state institutions 

 taking place in the first decades of the nineteenth 

 century. In the United States the state of New- 

 York was the first to recognize its obligation in 

 this direction by instituting a College of Forestry 

 in 1898, administered by Cornell University, a 

 private institution. Almost simultaneously a 

 " master school " was instituted on the Vander- 

 bilt estate at Biltmore, N. C, and by private en- 

 dowment a third school arose in connection with 

 Yale University, while a number of other institu- 

 tions attempt, at least, to keep abreast with the 

 times by representing the subject in some fashion 

 in their curricula. 



We beheve that finally, in each of the forested 

 states, it will be considered a part of proper forest 

 policy for some public institution of learning to 

 furnish instruction in forestry. This does not nec- 

 essarily mean university or higher professional 

 education ; there is as much need for the lower 

 grade education, of underforesters, logging bosses, 

 etc., such as Berea College, Kentucky, has so 

 auspiciously inaugurated. 



The only danger is,that multiplication in num- 

 ber rather than increase in efficiency of a few such 

 institutions will be the rule of the day, when the 

 fever sets in. 



In the European forestry Hterature a lively dis- 

 cussion has continued for years as to whether the 

 higher education in forestry should be given at 



