1886.] A NATIONAL SCHOOL OF FORESTRY. 607 



tlieoretictil acqiiiremeuts and eularging their experience. If they 

 aspire to positions in India or the colonies, let them go there and he 

 placed under chiefs who may be presumed to be capable of developing 

 their theoretical acquirements into ripe practical experience. On 

 tlio other hand, if they elect to stay at home they will find abundant 

 scope for reducing to practice their school lessons in the capacity of 

 foremen, and eventually aid in raising the position of practical 

 forestry in this country to a higher level. In reference to the 

 establishment of a Forestry School, Dr. Cleghorn gave it as his 

 opinion that improvement of forestry and sylviculture in this country 

 was impossible without it. 



The report, wiiile admitting the diflficulty as to time and place 

 that stands in the way of the creation of a Forestry School in this 

 country, advises the immediate adoption of the principle, and recom- 

 mends that a National School of Forestry be founded in Great Britain, 

 and that professorships of sylviculture be instituted at Cooper's Hill 

 and at Edinburgh University. 



The late period of the session at which the Committee was 

 nominated rendered it impossible to complete their investigations, 

 and they recommend that a Committee on the same subject be 

 appointed in the next session of Parliament. 



PRACTICABLE ARRANGEMENTS IF GOVERNMENT AID 

 SHOULD BE REQUIRED IN THE ESTABLISHMENT 

 OF A NATIONAL SCHOOL OF FORESTRY IN 

 EDINBURGH 



BY THE REV. J. C. BROWN, LL.D. 



IX a preceding number I have stated my views in regard to the 

 eligibility of Edinburgh as the site for a National School of 

 Forestry ; and I there mentioned that at a meeting held in the close 

 of the year l)y the committee appointed at a Conference held in 

 1884 in the International Forestry Exhibition, to take measures for 

 the establishment of such a School, the members present were 

 unanimous in a resolution to endeavour to raise £10,000 for the 

 endowment of a Professorship in the University. By some it may 

 be considered that such a professorship would be all that would be 

 necessary ; by others it may be considered that the establishment 

 of such a professorship might be an important point of departure 

 towards further arrangements for securing complete provision for the 

 education, instruction, and training of English-speaking students in 



