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sense derive any direct Lenefit from the London royal parks, but 

 neither can it be alleged that the London public enjoy them 

 exclusively, and it therefore would be unjust to fetter the latter 

 with the cost of the maintenance of property over which they liave 

 no riglit of control. In the case of the lioyal (Jardens, Kew, the 

 whole empire, it may be said, participates directly in the benefits 

 whicli flow from it as an agency for the dissemination of scientific 

 and economic knowledge. Any hampering of the machinery of 

 that institution under the plea of economy or from finical notions 

 of justice in the incidence of taxation, would be little short of a 

 national disaster — certainly it would be a national disgrace. 



We are pleased to observe that Sir J. Lubbock moved in the 

 House of Commons on 23rd March the appointment of a Select 

 Committee to consider whether by the establishment of a Forest 

 School or otherwise our woodlands could be rendered more 

 remunerative. The motion was agreed to. 



ON ENDEAVOURS WHICH HAVE BEEN MADE, WITH- 

 OUT SUCCESS, TO EFFECT THE ESTABIISHMENT OF 

 A NATIONAL SCHOOL OF FORESTRY IN BRITAIN 



BY KEY. J. C. BROWN, LL.D. 



IN a preceding article entitled " Practicable Arrangements if 

 Government Aid should be required in the Establishment of a 

 National School of Forestry in Edinburgh," I submitted for con- 

 sideration advantages and disadvantages attaching respectively to 

 the establishment by Government of a Professorship of Forestry in 

 the University of Edinburgh, and of the establishment of a National 

 School of Forestry in connection with the Edinburgh Museum of 

 Science and Art, in which forestry might be studied on terms similar 

 to those of the Eoyal School of Mines and I'ractical Geology in 

 London, and the Eoyal College of Science in Dublin. And in 

 another I have brought under consideration the expediency of 

 employing national funds in the establishment of a National School 

 of Forestry. 



A few gentlemen with whom I have been associated acting as a 

 committee, appointed at a Conference held in the International 

 Forestry Exhibition held in Edinburgh in 1884, to consider the 

 practicability of establishing in Edinburgh a National School of 



