CORPORATION PLANS TO MAKE VISIT AT FOREST

Arrangements have been completed to have members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers make a special visit to inspect the Harvard Forest on Sunday, May 9.

Conducted by the staff, the officials will survey the work which has been accomplished by this least known branch of the University over the last thirty years. This has been chiefly aimed at increasing the quality of the growing trees on the Forest tracts by judicious cutting of trees and brush.

The Director, Ward Shepard, has worked for the departments of Agriculture and the Interior, besides studying scientific forestry in Germany. He was imported to Harvard last May on a leave of absence from his present appointment as Special Adviser to the Chief of the Indian Service.

Students have never numbered more than a half dozen since the school was organized on a graduate basis in 1914. Instruction is offered by staff members in such divergent fields as Forest Entomology. Wild-life Management, and the coddling of pine seedlings in special growing conditions.

If could not be ascertained last night which members of the Corporation and Board of Overseers would take advantage of this opportunity to see forest research in action.