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Correspondence with Harvard University proposing the establishment of a forestry school

• HF-ID: HF1903-03
• Category: Research Files
• Creator: Shaler, N.S., Jack, J.G.
• Associated Person: Eliot, Pinchot, G.
• Date: 1903
• Location: Harvard Forest
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Establishment of a Forestry School. 1 File Folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.

• Keywords: education and policy
• Abstract:
  • Two Letters:
  • 1. From N.S. Shaler, Dean of Lawrence Scientific School to President Eliot, Harvard College requesting a start of a Forestry School, cost not to exceed $1200.
  • 2. From J.G. Jack, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University outlining
  • instruction in a course in Forestry - Dendrology or Forest Botany, Lectures and Field Work.

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• Archives Location: Middle Room, stack 1, drawer 3, HF History file
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