. Canadian forest industries 1908. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. i8 c ANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER. Robert Barclay Miller, M. F. New Brunswick University's New Forestry Professor. Robert Barclay Miller, , head of the new Department of Forestry which has been estab- lished at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, whose picture is published herewith, was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1875. He graduated from Wabash Col- lege, Crawfordsville, Indiana, with the degree of in the class of 1896, specializing in botany, a
. Canadian forest industries 1908. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. i8 c ANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER. Robert Barclay Miller, M. F. New Brunswick University's New Forestry Professor. Robert Barclay Miller, , head of the new Department of Forestry which has been estab- lished at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, whose picture is published herewith, was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1875. He graduated from Wabash Col- lege, Crawfordsville, Indiana, with the degree of in the class of 1896, specializing in botany, and later obtained the degree of For one year he was assistant prin- cipal of the Thorntown High School, teaching science and ma- thematics, but having acquired a liking for newspaper work, spent two years in a country office. After further newspaper experi- ence on !the Terre Haute "Ex- press" and the Chicago "Record Herald," he took a course in ecology in the University of Chi- cago and was elected professor of science in the Rochester Normal, at Rochester, Ind. He occupied this position for four years, a simi- lar position at Dakota University for one year, and at Huron College, Huron, , for two years In the spring of 1906 be entered the Yale Forest School at Milford, Pa., spending ten weeks in camp, studying surveying, forest botany, silvi- culture and forest mensuration He continued the course at New Haven, Conn., in the Yale Forest School, and received the degree of Master of Forestry last June. The course at Fredericton covers four years, the first two being parallel with the engineering course. In the junior year the real for- estry subjects begin. At present twelve men are pursuing courses, tour of them juniors. Besides the lectures field work is taken in estimating timber, studying the trees, etc. In January it is intended to spend a week in the' lumber woods and later, to give the men all the woods experience possible, to establish a summe
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