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ously through a whole term, after the theoretical knowledge has been acquired, will 

 prove of greatest benefit to the students. The students will pay their board at a 

 moderate rate in the College Forest at Axton, where a simple dormitory is to be 

 built, the present accommodations being insufficient. 



The course on business law which it is hoped to secure, as most desirable, not 

 only for students of forestry, but other professions in which a knowledge of the 

 principles of contract law, real estate and criminal procedure is required, has not as 

 yet been instituted, owing to the inability of the College of Law to provide the 

 same. Permission, however, was kindly granted by the College of Law to students 

 of the College of Forestry to attend the regular course on contract law. 



Accommodations. 



The accommodations for the College have been somewhat improved, since my 

 last report, by the assignment of two rooms, a larger one in a flimsy wooden build- 

 ing for Professor Roth's wood laboratory, a smaller one in the basement of another 

 building for the housing of demonstration material and collections, while the Director 

 occupies cramped quarters in a third building. 



Considering the crowded condition of the University in many, if not all, of its 

 departments, even this insufficient and unsatisfactory housing of this State institu- 

 tion must be gratefully accepted as real generosity, for which the University secures 

 but small returns in the prestige of administering the College. 



I can only repeat with more emphasis that " the absence of convenient and per- 

 manent lecture and laboratory rooms retards the proper development of the College 

 and is discouraging both to students and professors." 



An adequate building worthy of an institution which the great Empire State 

 sees fit to maintain is the foremost requirement now, since the College is otherwise 

 fairly established. 



A building 50 x 100 feet, two stories and basement, will probably be for all time 

 sufficient to accommodate the College, and may be built in good style and ade- 

 quately fitted out with an expenditure not exceeding $50,000. It should be built 

 without delay. 



Tl)e College Forest. 



On the first day of March, 1899, the Trustees of Cornell University took charge 

 of the property which is to serve as demonstration forest to the College of Forestry, 

 the purchase having been completed and the deed dated but not delivered from the 

 grantors, the Santa Clara Lumber Company, to the Trustees of the University on the 



