Jan. 1885.] EDITORIAL NOTES. 163 



Editorial Notes. 



The Inteknatioxal Foeestry Exiiibi'I'kjn. — In the early weeks 

 of January 1885, the accounts will be published. Notwithstanding 

 other statements already made regarding a surjjlus, no definite 

 announcement can as yet be made regarding the amount of the 

 lialance. In any case, though a considerable sum will lie devoted 

 to the Memorial Volume of Selections from the Prize Essays and 

 Eeports, the Executive appear to have a liappy issue out of their 

 troubles in sight ; and the pviblic may begin to look alone at the 

 triumphs, forgetting the contentions which for a time clouded the 

 course of llie great undertaking. 



Througli the good offices of the Earl of Kiiaberley, and those of 

 the Earl of Derby, the Indian and Colonial prize-winners will 

 receive their distinctions through the Indian and Colonial Offices. 

 This means, in the former c;ise at least, that the names will be 

 gazetted. 



In connection with the above, the Revue ties Eaux ct Foretn 

 states that M. Novimasa Tokei, accompanied by M. Takasima, the 

 Japanese representatives at the late Hxhibition, have been visiting 

 the Forest School at Nancy, as well as several of the great French 

 State forests. If the proposed abolition of the four assistant- 

 professors be gone on with, the school need not be visited by 

 foreigners ; the glory of Nancy will have departed, so thinks our 

 French contemporary. 



The New Forestry Institution at Coopee's Hill. — Dr. 

 Schlich, the Inspector - General of Indian Forests, is on his 

 way home to arrange as to the course of instruction the future 

 probationers of the Indian Forest Service are to receive at Cooper's 

 Hill. Working foresters may note in the course of the debate at- 

 the French Chamber, of which an abstract appears in tliis issue, 

 how the tendency in France is to confine the superior appointments 

 to the aristocratic classes. With a Forest School at Dehra Doon 

 for the instruction of intelligent natives, who are to fill all grades 

 below those at which the present expensively-educated Europeans 

 begin their course, — who are to be allowed on that stage only with 

 the utmost difficulty, — Scotch working foresters may consider whether 

 they may expect any good appointment in India. 



