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...Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the United States Division of Forestry, spoke informally in the Fogg Lecture Room last night on "Forestry as a Profession." He said in part: The science of forestry began in France about the time of the Revolution, spread to Germany, and soon after became a profession. Forestry is in itself purely economic; it has to do with making masses of trees useful to man. Upon its results depends to a great extent the industrial future of the United States; over fifty per cent. of our country's area must eventually come under its activities. The great...
...Gifford Pinchot, chief of the U. S. Division of Forestry will speak about "Forestry as as a Profession" in the lecture room of the Fogg Museum at 7.45 this evening. It is safe to say that few men in public life in this country today are doing more important work than Mr. Pinchot...
...return he opened an office in New York as consulting forester. Among the estates which he surveyed and planned out are the Biltmore estate in North Carolina and Mr. Webb's preserves in the Adirondacks. He was shortly afterward appointed Chief of the Division of Forestry at Washington. Mr. Pinchot lectured at Yale last fall and much interest has since been aroused there...
...recent efforts of the division have made apparent the great need for intelligent supervision of the country's forests, and for trained men to carry on this work. Of the future career open to such men and of the conditions under which their work must be carried on Mr. Pinchot will speak this evening...
...Gifford Pinchot, chief of the United States Division of Forestry, will speak on "Forestry as a Profession," on Friday, March 2, probably in the lecture room of the Fogg Museum...