22 



References. — Graves, Schimfer, Schenk. 



D. History of Forestry i week 



Lectures on European and American forestry. 



References. — Graves, Cir. 140, Forest Service U. S. A. 



E. Silviculture 3 weeks 



Establishment and care of forests. Tree planting and regeneration; enemies of 



forests. Working plans. 

 References. • — Schenk. 



F. Mensuration 3 weeks 



Calculation of stands and values. Pacing, mapping, surveying, estimating. Field 



work. Maps. 



References. — Bulletins 20 and 36. Forest Service, U. S. A. 



G. Lumbering 2 we eks 



History and present supplies. Conservation, forestry methods. Visits to mills. 



Identification of woods. Bulletin 34. 



H. I-aboratory Work 2 weeks 



Microscopic structure and physical properties. Bulletin 10. 



(Each student presents a thoro investigation of one tree as a thesis. ) 



Many teachers of botany will be interested in the new rules of 

 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching which 

 make instructors (as well as professors) in accepted institutions 

 eligible for the generous pensions provided by that fund. 



In Conservation for December are several articles of interest 

 to botanists. The two longest ones, which are fully illustrated, 

 deal with forestry in Japan and the relation of the South to conser- 

 vation in the conservation projects in the Appalachian Mountains. 



The last Forest Service report states that the states leading in 

 the production of last year's lumber supply of over ^500,000,000 

 are (in the order named) : Washington, Louisiana, Mississippi, 

 Arkansas, Wisconsin, Texas, Michigan, Oregon, Minnesota, and 

 Pennsylvania. The rank of Louisiana and Texas may be some- 

 what surprising. Yellow pine from the southern states leads the 

 list, over 33 per cent, of all lumber cut; Douglas fir of the north- 

 western states was second ; and white pine, third. 



Articles of interest in the November issue of the Popular Science 

 Monthly are the World of Life as Visualized and Literpreted by 

 Darwinisin, an abstract of a lecture delivered by Alfred Russel 



