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School of Forestry. On the one hand, in these circumstances, many 

 such might abstain from presenting themselves ; and on the other 

 hand, and this I deem of not less importance, there are many 

 young men who have been familiar with trees from childhood, 

 whose services it is of perhaps more importance to the State to 

 secure — young men who may be willing to work if they could 

 lind employment in nurseries or gardens, and tlius support themselves 

 while attending classes. University class hours, however, are likely 

 to be determined by other considerations than their convenience ; 

 and there are at present no such scholarships as are held with 

 honour by students of divinity and others open to them, neither 

 as yet are there of easy acquisition such remunerative engage- 

 ments on the completion of their studies as are open to students 

 of medicine and of divinity, whereby they might soon recoup the 

 expenditure incurred in a residence at the University. With 

 these two restrictions on the number of students, the attendance 

 on the class would be limited, and from this it might follow that 

 the professorship would become merely an honourable or respectable 

 sinecure, giving the incumbent leisure for the prosecution of study 

 and the publication of results when the demand for forestal litera- 

 ture may become such as would warrant this, with some probability 

 that the expense of publication would be met by sales ; and 

 though the risk of this might be justifiable in a private endow- 

 ment, it may be questioned whether it would be justifiable in an 

 expenditure of public funds. It was with reluctance that some 

 of the members of the committee gave up the idea of a School 

 of Forestry, and substituted for this that of a Professorship of 

 Forestry in the University. They were unanimous in their final 

 decision ; but this was not the only scheme discussed. It was 

 formally proposed to send to the Science and Art Department of the 

 Council on Education, South Kensington, copies of resolutions in 

 favour of the establishment of a School of Forestry adopted within 

 the last few months by the Arboricultural Society, by the Select 

 Committee of the House of Commons, and by the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, with a statement of our views of 



Part II.— 



Destruction of Forests by Man. 

 Forest Conservation in France and in Germany. 

 History of Forestry. 

 Advanced Modern Forest Economy. 



Sylviculture in accordance with Advanced Modern Forest Economy. 

 Forestry of different Countries on the Continent of Europe. 

 Forestry and Arboriculture of Britain. 

 Impio\'ed Forestry in India. 

 Treatment of Forests in Bi'itish Colonies. 



Destruction, Conservation, and Extension of Forests in the United States of 

 America. 



