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quarler-girtli principle is an ample excuse for its use." We know that 

 the true solid content is not obtained by our present method, but so long 

 as it is the generally accepted system the seller knowingly gives a certain 

 quantity of wood to the buyer for a certain sum of money, and the buyer is 

 aware that he is getting an inch or two more than the exact foot, and squares 

 his price accordingly ; so that in the end there is no loss to the grower o 

 the wood. It is a fact that if one forester measures his wood making an 

 allowance for bark, which I believe is the Scotch system, that man will 

 get per foot a higher price than another can who measures his trees without 

 the above allowance. It would be a great advantage to the trade generally 

 to adopt one system of measurement throughout Britain, and that to 

 measure including the bark. Peeled wood might then be valued a little 

 higher per foot. Mr. Barry's example, as showing the difference of the 

 real from the false measurement of a tree, is nevertheless rather striking, 

 and is worthy of all consideration from those interested in the sale of wood. 

 The thickness of bark varies on one tree from another, and more especially 

 on one kind of tree from another, so that the price per foot of any particular 

 kind of wood would be regulated by the bark. All who use the tape or 

 girth-line know that it is very difficult to make a true allowance for bark 

 and consequently a tree is more often sold as a tree than by so much per 

 foot ; yet it is customary to use the rule and line so as to form a near 

 estimate of the solid contents. The fact, as noticed by Mr. Barry, that a 

 tree measures more by one-sixth when cut into three pieces, or measured at 

 three places, should never be lost sight of by the forester when selling 

 wood at so much per cubic foot. M. R 



SCHOOL OF EORESTRY. 



Sir, — I find that several of my correspondents are desirous that 

 irrespective of what may be done, or may not be done, to secure the 

 creation of a School of Forestry in connection with the projected Arboretum 

 in Edinburgh, the first School of Forestry establishecl among the English 

 speaking populations of the world should be in England. Very good ! 

 I have no objection. 



From an excerpt from the City Press of the 9th current, which I have 

 received to-day, it appears that a meeting to initiate a national scheme of 

 technical education was held at Mercers' Hall on this day week which was 

 attended by representatives of the Corporation of London and of several 

 of the London Companies, at which it was reported that the Mercers' 

 Drapers', Fishmongers', Goldsmiths', and Clothworkers' Companies had 

 each conditionally promised an annual contribution of £2,000 towards the 

 project, provided, of course, that it took such a shape in its develoiDment 

 as they could approve, and support was promised conditionally by the 

 Armourers and Braziers', the Plasterers', the Vintners', the Ironmono-ers', 

 the Salters', and the Dyers' Companies, and approval was expressed by the 



