7O TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
containing the lectures he delivered in the University of Oxford 
during the past year ; and to his marvellous energy we shall owe the 
new edition of “ Brown’s Forester,” which is shortly to appear, and 
an English version of Hartig’s ‘“ Text-Book” for foresters. All this 
activity shows an increasing interest in forestry, but it is only the 
beginning of a movement to make up for the preceding dearth. 
Botanists are greatly indebted to the Delegates of the Clarendon 
Press—and it is fitting I should here acknowledge the obligation— 
for the splendid series of standard foreign works on botany they 
have brought within the reach of English-speaking students, and 
which have done so much for the progress of botany in Britain. If 
we have now got beyond the stage of dependence in pure botany, 
we are far from it in scientific forestry, and I would hope that the 
Clarendou Press will add tv its botanical series some of the standard 
foreign forestry books, and thus aid in the dissemination of the 
knowledge so essential to progress in the subject. 
I must not omit to refer here ta the excellent opportunity that 
is afforded for the circulation of scientific information by the new 
journal of the Board of Agriculture, of which intimation has 
recently been made, and it is to be hoped that forestry will find a 
place in it side by side with agriculture. 
The attention paid to the teaching and study of forestry by 
Continental States, their many schools and copious literature of 
forestry, make it remarkable that, apart altogether from the 
econuinic side, forestry as a subject of study and investigation 
has not been long ago introduced in some of our teaching centres. 
I think the Sibthorpian Chair of Rural Economy of the University 
of Oxford was for long the only one through which forestry was 
recognised as within the sphere of university education. So far 
the limited tenure of this chair, in its new dress, has been held by 
agriculturists—iu their line the most distinguished men ; but I 
should like to think that one may look forward to a time when 
forestry shall have its turn, if by that time it has not come about 
that it is otherwise provided for. 
Ic was, however, only the necessities of India which, at a com- 
paratively recent date, led to the first starting of forestry teaching 
in Britain, and then only at the cost of India, and for those 
destined to serve there as foresters. Coopers Hill College, the 
outcome of these, with its excellent equipment—including now, I 
believe, a slice of Windsor Forest for purposes of practical work— 
possesses the elements of a successful forestry school, and it has 
