56 I'he Joitrjial of Forestry. 



relate maiiil}', if I may not say exclusively, to hunting, tliese laws having 

 nothing to do with shrubs and trees, excepting in so far as they may supply 

 shelter or covert for game. I speak advisedly when I say that, according to 

 the technical use of the term in English law, a lorest need not contain a 

 single tree, and a dozen of contiguous counties might be covered with trees 

 without these constituting a forest. The totally different circumstances in 

 which the different countries have stood in regard to the requirements of 

 forest products account for the difference in the attention hitherto given on 

 the Continent and in Britain to the study of what is known there as Forest 

 Science. 



" It may be asked, seeing it is so, ' "Why should we not go on as we have been 

 doing hitherto ? ' The answer is given in the passage I have cited from 

 Dr. Hooker. In our colonies, and in the Empire of India, evils which have long 

 existed are being remedied ; and those whom the country would engage to go 

 forth to meet the evils must go, at the country's expense, to acquire the neces- 

 sary education in other lands, and in a foreign language, unknown to most 

 young gardeners and foresters, and sons of foresters, and which is so taught 

 in many of our schools, that few even of the young men of our country who 

 have had a liberal education could understand instruction given in it, as they 

 could instruction given in their own tongue." 



Forcibly coutrastiug the scanty amount of English forest literature 

 "with its abundance and richness in foreign languages, Dr. Brown goes on 

 to give a summary of what has lately been done in India, Australia, and 

 tlie United States for the promotion of forest science, and sajs : — 



" These facts may be accepted as indications that it is becoming of importance 

 that arrangements should now be made for instruction in forest science 

 being communicated in English to those to whom may be entrusted the 

 administration and management of forests, but who can only imperlectly avail 

 themselves of the extensive arrangements for this being done in the other 

 languages of Europe." 



After giving the oiiinjons of several eminent and skilled authorities 

 upon the great want there is felt for a Torest School in Great Britain, he 

 concludes with a strcng and ably advocated appeal to " all whom it may 

 concern," for the establishment of a I'orest School in connection with the 

 Arboretum, University, and other educational institutions in Edinburgh ; 

 upon which there may be some difference of opinion, but of the necessity 

 for a scJiool there can be none. 



Landed H.sfales Management. By Egbert Scott Burn. 

 London: Crosby Lockwood and Co. 



In this handy volume we are presented with a complete and comprehensive 

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