students the master’s degree in forestry. To 
those who desire to post themselves on the 
present status of forestry education in the 
United States, attention is called to a very 
recently issued bulletin of the U. S. Bureau 
of Education, No. 44—1921. “Education in 
Forestry: The Proceedings of the Second Na- 
tional Forestry Education Conference, Held 
at New Haven, Conn., December, 1920.” 
Next, one notices that the European for- 
est schools are run with particular reference 
to supplying men for the government forest 
service and only incidentally for training 
those who may find employment with private 
owners or corporations. This naturally leads 
to restriction in the number of students al- 
ing the young forester naturally has to serve 
his time in the army along with his fellows, 
but the military training of the foresters is 
usually so arranged that at the end of the 
course they emerge as Officers, at least of the 
reserve crops. In some countries this comes 
about automatically. In France, for exam- 
ple, all government foresters have a military 
rank, graduated according to their positions. 
In some of the other countries it is more or 
less of an unwritten law that a forester fol- 
low through the various steps that shall qual- 
ify him for a commission. 
A fourth point is the stress that is laid on 
combining practical work in the forest with 
the theoretical instruction at the forest 
SCHOOL OF 
FORESTRY, 
UNIVERSITY 
OF OXFORD, 
ENGLAND, 
WHERE HAVE 
BEEN TRAINED 
MANY 
FORESTERS 
FOR BRITISH 
INDIA 
lowed to matriculate and also to a more or 
less rigid curriculum that is followed by all 
students. This does not necessarily imply 
that all the graduates actually enter the gov- 
ernment service, but it does mean that all 
men in the forest service of that government 
must be forest school graduates. In these 
days this principle holds as well for the sub- 
ordinate forest officers. To be eligible for 
such positions these men must have com- 
pleted satisfactorily the course at a secondary 
forest academy, or as we should say, a ranger 
school. 
Third, is to be noted the close relation be- 
tween the forest school and the army. Un- 
der the system of compulsory military train- 
school. Often a considerable period is de- 
manded as a prerequisite to entrance. In 
other instances practical training forms a part 
of the school program. The object in any 
case is to make sure that the young forester 
is able himself to do the things that later he 
will require of the men under him. Most 
American forest schools demand a period of 
practical work in the woods as one of the re- 
quirements for graduation, but usually the 
period is shorter than that insisted upon in 
the European schools. 
Fifth, taken by and large, the European 
forestry student enters the forest school bet- 
ter prepared in’the fundamental sciences, in 
mathematics and especially in the modern 
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