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SUMMER TERM— (18) Topographic Surveying and Thesis. 



(1) FOREST ECONOMICS AND POLICY (Prof Ziegler), 



Senior Year — Second Term — 3 hours. 



Lectures with reference work. Taking up Forest Statistics — 

 Resources, Production, Consumption, Exchange: Forest PoHcy 

 — National Forests, Tariffs, Education : State Policy : Private 

 Policy (Associations, etc.) : Policy of foreign countries. 



(2) FOREST HISTORY (Prof. Retan), Senior Year— Second 



Term — 1 hour. 



Lectures. Hstory of the development of the forestry idea in 

 Pennsylvania. Contemporaneous development in the United 

 States as a whole. Colonial conditions and laws, the early 

 botanists, the primeval forests of the State, the beginnings of 

 lumbering, its rise and fall, the "Fathers of Pennsylvania For- 

 estry," the history of the State Forest Academy. 



(3) ELEMENTARY FORESTRY (Prof. Illick), Freshman 

 Year — First Term — Lectures 2 hours, Field Work 3 hours. 



This course aims to lay a broad foundation for the later and 

 more specific course in forestry. Special stress is laid upon the 

 field work in the State forest of 25,000 acres adjoining the 

 school. This State forest is considered the most instructive in 

 Pennsylvania. Upon it are many plantations and improvement 

 cuttings made within recent years. Each student is required 

 to prepare a written report upon every field trip. This report 

 is corrected and returned to him. 



(4) DENDROLOGY, (Prof. Illick), Junior Year— First and 

 Second Terms — Lectures 2 hours. Field Work 4 hours; Sum- 

 mer Term — Field Work. 



The course in Dendrology extends throughout the entire 

 junior year and covers both the systematic and biological aspects 



