menting the friendly relations between the 
foresters of the Scandinavian countries and 
of the United States—The American-Scandi- 
navian Foundation. Established through the 
muoificence of a Swedish-American gentle- 
man, with the purpose of fostering better ac- 
quaintance and understanding between these 
countries and our own, the foundation offers 
annually to properly qualified students on 
each side of the ocean, fellowships carrying 
a stipend of $1,000, on the understanding 
that the recipient shall spend a college year 
overseas in advanced study. The majority of 
the fellowships are for engineering students, 
but there are also some for foresters. An 
American forestry student to be eligible must 
hold the degree master of forestry from an 
approved institution. The appointments are 
based on the comparative merits of the ap- 
plicants. The American headquarters of the 
American-Scandinavian Foundation is at 25 
West 45th street, New York city. 
the notable men that have been among its 
graduates. The Danish Forest School was 
first established at Kiel in 1784. It has been 
located at Copenhagen since 1832. The de- 
partment of forestry occupies quarters in one 
of the large building of the college of agri- 
culture, which while unpretentious and rela- 
tively small, serve the present needs. The 
forestry staff consists of two professors of 
forestry, with several lecturers and assistants. 
As in Norway, instruction in allied branches 
is given by the departments concerned, as it 
is in American state colleges of agriculture. 
The head of the forestry department is Prof. 
John Helms. One of the special lecturers is 
Prof. Dr. A. Oppermann, director of the Dan- 
ish Forest Experiment Station. 
The course covers an extended period. First 
18 months of practical work under direction 
of a forester on a forest of not less than 600 
acres. Here the men act as laborers and re- 
THE ROYAL 
COLLEGE OF 
AGRICULTURE, 
COPENHAGEN, 
DENMARK—THE 
SCHOOL OF 
FORESTRY IS A 
DEPARTMENT 
Several exchanges of forestry students have 
already been effected. It was the writer’s 
good fortune to have as his guide while in 
Sweden one of the Swedish foresters who had 
thus been in the United States, Jagmastare 
Axel Schard, now a member of the Swedish 
Forest Service. At the present time there are 
two American forestry students in Sweden, 
Messers. W. K. Williams, Jr., a graduate of 
the Yale Forest School, and Henry Vettel, a 
graduate of the Department of Forestry at 
Cornell University. It is to be hoped that 
each year this interchange may go on, for 
certainly much can be gained.on either hand 
from the opportunities that are afforded to 
recipients of these foundation fellowships. 
THE FOREST SCHOOL 
OF DENMARK 
The Forest School of Denmark is located 
at Copenhagen as a department of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Medicine and Agricul- 
ture, an educational institution with an envi- 
able reputation of long standing, because of 
ceive pay. Then four years at the college, 
one summer being spent in surveying work. 
After this comes 18 months of work as assist- 
ant on a forest, at the expiration of which 
time an examination is taken that admits the 
young forester to the grade of “‘forst kandi- 
dat’. As in Norway, this title takes the place 
of a degree. Somewhere along the way there 
is sandwiched in eight months military train- 
ing, or if the student desires a commission, a 
year and a half. The graduated forester then 
hunts a job. This long period of preparation 
is quite in keeping with the intensive meth- 
ods in forestry that have already been com- 
mented on as characteristic of Denmark. 
THE FOREST SCHOOL 
OF SWITZERLAND 
Switzerland is one of the countries where 
the forest school is a part of the national 
polytechnic school. The capital of Switzer- 
land is Berne, but Ziirich is the chief educa- 
tional city of the Confederation. Here in a 
commodious building devoted exclusively to 
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