Excerpt from Education in Forestry: Proceedings of the Second National Conference, New Haven, Conn;, December 17-18, 1920 One of the important results of that conference was the appointment. Of a committee on forestry education in America, with H. S. Graves as chairman. The purpose of this committee was to prepare and report upon a plan looking forward to a better standardization of forestry education in the different grades in this country. The committee reported at a special conference in Washington, in December, 1911, attended by representatives from It; forest schools and departments of forestry in American colleges and universities The plan proposed by the committee was discussed in detail and action taken on matters relating to admittance to schools of different grades, curriculum. And the number of hours in each subject. The final report embodying action taken at this special conference was published in the Forestry Quarterly for September, 1912. The majority of the committee and the representatives of the institutions present at the special conference recognized that there should be in America four different grades of instruction in forestry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.