. Impressions of European forestry : letters written during a six months' visit to England and to the continent . Forests and forestry. 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, ; Next, one notices that the European for- est schools are run with


. Impressions of European forestry : letters written during a six months' visit to England and to the continent . Forests and forestry. 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, ; 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 th


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