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work many trained and partly trained young American 

 foresters, including some from this state, who are making 

 a good record, took part. 



The college of forestry at Cornell University and the 

 school of forestry at Yale University are recent, well en- 

 dowed and notable institutions. 



A new school of forestry has been provided in the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, and will commence work next Sep- 

 tember. Its principal professor will be Mr. Filibert Roth, 

 a well known forester, who has served several years in the 

 United States forestry bureau, also as chief of the division 

 of forestry in the Department of the Interior, His duties as 

 professor will be to foster forestry in Michigan by advice 

 and addresses as well as by actual help in the woods; as- 

 sist in the care of state forest lands; manage the univer- 

 sity forest lands; and educate men in forest work. He 

 will be assisted by Mr. Charles A. Davis, who has served 

 as professor of sciences, in Alma College, Alma, Mich., 

 and who has had extensive experience as a woodsman. 



Of other schools where forestry training is given, that 

 at St. Anthony Park, Minn. , and that at Biltmore, N. C. , 

 are not the least. 



Of the different states, two or three have already 

 adopted, and a dozen or more are trying to work out, 

 plans of forest restoration and administration. The State 

 of New York has expended about 1 2, 000,000 in purchas- 

 ing land, in the Adirondack mountains, for forestry pur- 

 poses. She has contributed much to forestry Hterature. 

 Her constitution, however, prohibits the cutting of any 

 timber in the state forests, and requires them to remain 

 in their natural state. This, the friends of forestry wish 

 abrogated, and, when done, New York will be in the lead, 

 if she is not now, of all the states in forestry. Pennsyl- 

 vania has lately authorized its forest commission to buy 

 any land suitable for forest at not exceeding $5 per acre, 

 and her commissioner states that during the term of the 



