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the eligibility of Edinburgli as a site for such a School, and to submit 

 for their consideration the expediency of their making arrangements 

 for the study of forestry in connection with the Museum of Science 

 and Art in Edinburgh, on terms similar to those of the Royal College 

 of Science in Dublin, and of the Eoyal School of Mines and Practical 

 Geology in London ; or, alternatively, that we should make such a 

 communication to the Governors of the "Watt Institution. 



And by some such measure, if the committee do not succeed in 

 raising the £10,000 which they consider necessary for the accom- 

 plishment of that upon which they have agreed, it may be practicable 

 to secure the advantages anticipated from a Professorship of Forestry 

 in the University, together wdth others of scarcely less importance, 

 without the disadvantages, or at least without some of the dis- 

 advantages, which have been mentioned, or others equally or still 

 more to be deprecated. 



Por thoroughly efficient and satisfactory teaching in all the 

 subjects of study enumerated in the preceding paper, and appended 

 to this in a footnote, there would be required a staff of at least three 

 teachers, one giving instruction in forest science ; a second, in forest 

 economy and sylviculture ; and the third, in arboriculture and the 

 management of woods and plantations such as are seen in Britain. 

 But neither is it necessary to have so many teachers from the 

 first ; nor is it necessary to have only these, or no others until these 

 may have been installed. 



A commencement might be made with one teacher, and I had 

 almost said, with a teacher in any one of these departments of 

 study. Supposing a commencement made with a teacher of forest 

 science. A teacher qualified for conducting the studies of a class 

 satisfactorily in forest science would be one qualified for communi- 

 cating instruction in both of the other departments ; and with such 

 instruction in these as might be given by him, the promoters and 

 supporters of the School might rest satisfied till the necessity for an 

 addition being made to the teaching power of the institution began 

 to manifest itself. Then, another being added, the first would be 

 relieved of having to give instructioir in the department assigned to 

 the new teacher, whether this should be one or other of those 

 mentioned, or some one or more of departments of study comprised 

 under the comprehensive designation Forest Science ; and thereafter 

 successive differentiations could be introduced as circumstances 

 might require or w\arrant. It is questionable whether this could 

 be done with a Professorship of Forestry in the University ; but so 

 far as appears, it might be done if arrangements were made for the 

 study of forestry in connection with the Museum of Science and Art 

 in Edinburgh on terms similar to those of the Pioyal School of 



