FORESTRY IN BRITAIN. fu 
within recent. years opened its doors to outsiders who may wish to 
learn forestry. But, so far as I am aware, it does not draw the 
young landowners of the country as it should do. Possibly the 
expense of the special education, which equals that of the univer- 
sities without offering the advantages in other directions they 
afford, may be deterrent ; but I am inclined to think that if the 
authorities made the fact better known that men other than foresters 
for India are admitted to the College, more would avail themselves 
of the opportunity. 
Beyond this, and some slight notice of forestry at agricultural 
colleges, there have been no facilities for forestry teaching in 
Britain until within the last half-dozen years. I leave out of 
reckoning mere examining boards. Can we wonder, then, that 
there is a general want of intelligent appreciation of scientific 
forestry? Even now all that has resulted from the agitation in 
favour of more attention being given to this subject is—a lecture- 
ship on forestry in the University of Edinburgh, supported partly 
by the Board of Agriculture and partly by an endowment from 
subscriptions among landowners and others (and; I may mention 
here, forestry is now included as an optional subject in the univer- 
sity curriculum for an agricultural degree); a chair, or part of one, 
in the Royal College of Science at Newcastle, founded conjointly 
by the Board of Agriculture and the County Council ; a course of 
instruction in science for practical foresters in the Royal Botanic 
Garden at Edinburgh, maintained by the Board of Agriculture ; 
and a lecture course on forestry in the Glasgow and West of Scot- 
land Technical Institute, similarly provided for. I must not omit 
to mention, too, the beginning, just made, by the Surveyors’ 
Institute of the formation of a forestry museum in London, which 
should have an important educative influence. Little though it is, 
I think there is occasion for congratulation that even so much has 
been done to provide instruction, and I would have you note that 
in this education the different classes concerned with forestry are 
all recognised. Valuable as the teaching so being given is, it must 
have an effect in showing the need there is for more. In one way 
the teaching of all these bodies is incomplete, and must be imperfect, 
inasmuch as they have not the means for practical forestry work. 
Until this is provided, as I have indicated already, the teaching of 
forestry cannot be thoroughly carried out. 
But, after all, what has been done in the way of supplying our 
wants in the way of teaching is nothing to what is required if 
