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considered, their views would be communicated. N"o communication 

 having been received, the offer was renewed in the following 

 autumn, but nothing came of it. 



Meanwhile, or subsequently, the expediency of combining with 

 existing arrangements, or contemplated arrangements, provision for 

 the study of forestry had been or was submitted for discussion in 

 the following bodies in Scotland: — The Royal Society of Edinburgh; 

 the Eoyal Scottish Society of Arts ; the Highland and Agricultural 

 Society of Scotland; the Magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh; 

 the Governors of the Watt Institution in Edinburgh; the Andersonian 

 University of Glasgow; the University of St. Andrews, in view of 

 the establishment of an affiliated College in Dundee ; the Trustees 

 of the Fordyce Lectureship on Natural History, Chemistry, and 

 Agriculture, in connection with the University of Aberdeen. In 

 England, for some years it had been the desire of the Council of the 

 Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester to combine the study of 

 forestry with the other studies pursued there. In London, there was 

 a proposal to establish a Polytechnicum, or College of Science and 

 Manufactures, with funds contributed by the various companies 

 of the Corporation, and by the officials of more than one of these 

 companies was the expediency of combining with other arrangements 

 provision for the study of forestry brought under consideration ; and 

 on Epping Forest becoming the property of the Corporation of 

 London, a suggestion was made by Mr. Alexander Mackenzie, who 

 had been appointed superintendent of the forest, that a School of 

 Forestry should be established in connection with the forest, for 

 which, he said, there M-as a combination of circumstances which 

 seemed to tend to a hope of success. And in the number of the 

 Journal of Forestry for February 1881 there is given (pp. 673-676) 

 the text of a memorial presented by him to the Epping Forest 

 Committee of the Court of Common Council, in which he unfolds 

 liis scheme — a scheme which in all its details is well deserving of 

 serious consideration, as are also observations made in support of his 

 suggestion. From this a citation has been made in a preceding 

 article. {Ante, p. 545.) 



Since then arrangements have been made for the study of 

 Forestry at the Royal Engineering College at West Hill. But the 

 fees, amounting to £180 per annum, prevent this being legitimately 

 considered a National School of Forestry. 



