There comes a stage in the growth of Institutions when increasing complexity requires specialized organization. That stage the Forestry School has reached. The two departments into which it would naturally be divided, however, fall into closer association with already existing graduate schools than with one another; and as a result the Forestry School as a distinct entity will cease to exist.

Hitherto, its purpose, like the purpose of many of the more recently founded American schools, has been to furnish a broad general knowledge of silviculture and the management of forests. Since the need for intensive operation of forests is less pressing in America than in England, the demands have been more and more for specialists in either the business or the technical, scientific aspects of lumbering. By the present plans, joining one division of the School with the Business School and the other with the Bussey Institute and Arnold Arboretum, these demands are recognized, and the interests of forest conservation are at the same time better served.