1 82 Forestry Quarterly 



As is well known, the Forest School at Cooper's Hill, England, 

 was discontinued last year, and Dr. Schlich and his associates 

 were transferred to Oxford where a course in forestry was organ- 

 ized. The course is designed to train students for the Forest 

 Service in India and other British colonial possessions. The 

 course covers a period of three years, two of which are spent at 

 Oxford and the third on the Continent, chiefly in Germany. 

 The course of study at Oxford comprises : 



FIRST YEAR. 



(a) Mathematics, (b) Chemistry of Soils, and selected chapters 

 of Organic Chemistry, (c) Geology, (d) Botany, (e) Forestry, 

 comprising Silviculture and either Forest Protection or Utiliza- 

 tion, (f) Geometrical Drawing and Elementary Forest Engi- 

 neering, (g) German. 



vSECOND YEAR. 



(g) German, (h) Geology of India, (k) Botany, comprising 

 Pathology, the Structure of Timber, and Special Systematic 

 Botany, (1) Entomology, (m) Forestry, comprising Forest 

 Management, Forest Administration, and either Forest Utiliza- 

 tion or Protection, (n) Forest Law, (o) Surveying, (p) Book- 

 keeping in relation to Indian Forest Accounts. 



During the two years' course at Oxford excursions are made to 

 neighboring forests and a short tour of three weeks is taken to 

 the forests of France. The practical course of the third year 

 covers nine months. For the first seven months students are 

 placed with selected German forest officers who give them prac- 

 tical instruction in forest management and in language. The 

 last two months are spent in a visit to interesting forest districts 

 on the Continent. 



