614 A NATIONAL SCHOOL OF FORESTRY. [Feb. 



to students, not being royal exhibitioners, on the completion of their 

 first academic year. Of the National Scholarships, twelve are open 

 for competition annually to persons who have taken a first or second 

 certificate in the advanced stage in any subject of science in the 

 examinations of the Science and Art Department, and who show 

 that they are hona fide Science Teachers. Holders of these may 

 attend all the day lectures gratuitously, provided that they be 

 examined in at least one subject, and that they pay a fee of £1 for 

 each course in which they propose to be examined. 



The fees charged to associate students for lectures and laboratories 

 average £15 a year. Students wishing to make one payment for 

 the whole three years' " course of lectures " are allowed to compound 

 for £25 in addition to the laboratory fees. The fees payable by 

 non-associate students are £2 for each separate course of lectures, 

 with charges for laboratory instruction, graduated in each class 

 according to the time attended. A non-associate student taking a 

 complete course of instruction is admitted at the same fees as are 

 charged to associate students ; and in any case such receive certifi- 

 cates after examination, if they have attended two-thirds of an entire 

 course of lectures. By these arrangements provision is made for 

 enabling students of limited means to meet the expense of board 

 and education without loss of self-respect. They are similar to 

 those carried out in Loudon ; and if such were made in connection 

 with a School of Forestry iu Edinburgh, they would bring the course 

 of study prescribed, in whole or in part as the student might wish, 

 within reach of a great number of intelligent young men, who could 

 not meet the expense of University life and University fees, with the 

 advantage superadded that the holder of the exhibition or scholar- 

 ship would Iiave the satisfaction of knowing, and of having it known 

 by his fellow-students, that this he has secured by giving evidence 

 of his qualification for engaging in the studies to which he aspires, — 

 which may be more than they could have done. And at the same 

 time, a certificate of his having obtained such exhibition or scholar- 

 ship, with certificate of his having passed satisfactorily both the 

 entrance and the exit examinations of such a Government institution, 

 might have assigned to it a definite value in any application the 

 holder might make for any appointment at home or abroad. 



