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strative duties ; but the capability of attaining administrative ability 

 with a corresponding professional preparation, is not confined to the 

 sons of such as can meet the expense of the more expensive training ; 

 and there are multitudes of young men whose services it would be 

 advantageous to the community to secure, whose parents cannot 

 expend on their training £180 a year, who at such an institution as 

 is contemplated might be prepared for any competitive examination 

 which might be proposed by the Government ; and who thereafter 

 might be left to create their own social position, with the probability 

 that they will rise high in the service, and command respect and 

 esteem. 



There are three arrangements, by any one of which the advantages 

 to be derived from selecting Edinburgh as the site of study 

 might be secured at a moderate expenditure: 1. The creation of a 

 professorship of Forestry or Forest Science in the University ; 

 or 2. The creation of a lectureship on Forest Science in the Watt 

 Institute ; or 3. The creation by the Science and Art Depart- 

 ment of the Committee of Council on Education of a School of 

 Forestry in Edinburgh similar to the Koyal School of Science in 

 Dublin, and to the Eoyal School of Mines and Practical Geology in 

 London. 



The committee are as nearly unanimous as it is possible to 

 be in opinion that the first of these arrangements is in existing 

 circumstances preferable to either of the others; and they are perfectly 

 unanimous in opinion that this is what should first be attempted, 

 and to provide for this they are directing their best energies. 



TREES OF MONMOUTHSHIRE. 



by " young forester." 

 The Elm. 



THE Elm grows in great abundance all over the moors of this 

 county, and the timber is of a much tougher sort than that of 

 many parts of Gloucestershire and Somersetshire ; but it does not 

 reach such large dimensions here as in these other counties. I 

 have known in my time very large elms felled on these Monmouth- 

 shire moors, containing from a hundred to a hundred and fifty 

 cubic feet in their bole. We do not usually get them so large ;. 

 nevertheless there are hundreds of trees still standing with an 

 average of 50 cubic feet each, which I consider at the 

 present time a very saleable size. Elm with a girth of 12 



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