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mental Committee on British Forestry, recently presented to 

 Parliament, and have decided, in consequence of the recommenda- 

 tion of that report, to remodel and largely develop the teaching of 

 forestry at the college, in connection with the estate management 

 branch of the curriculum. In furtherance of this object they have 

 resolved to create a new chair, to be entitled the Chair of Estate 

 Management and Forestry, and to appoint thereto a special 

 professor or lecturer, who shall be required to devote all his 

 time to the duties of the chair, and who shall have had good 

 experience, not only of the management of woods in this country, 

 but also of the Continental system of sylviculture followed in 

 the State and Communal forests of France and Germany. This 

 will be the first attempt in England to deal with this important 

 question on these lines ; and inasmuch as a large proportion of 

 future land-owners and managers who attend regular courses of 

 college instruction pass through Cirencester, the results will be 

 watched with much interest. — The Times, April 20th, 1903. 



The inauguration of the Chair above referred to took place on 17th 

 November, when Dr Schlich delivered an address. The Principal, 

 the Rev. J. B. M'Clellan, M.A., in the course of his remarks in 

 opening the pi'oceedings, said he desired to thank Lord Bathurst — 

 who regretted to be unable to be present owing to another engage- 

 ment — for the kindly way in which he had put his magnificent and 

 exceedingly well-managed woods at their disposal for the purposes 

 of practical instruction, and had also arranged to provide for them 

 a forest garden, mainly at his own expense. He wished to tender 

 through Mr Benjamin Bathurst, their Member, their best thanks to 

 Lord Bathurst for his munificent offer. He was also glad to welcome 

 others interested in forestry, including Mr Elwes, who had informed 

 him that he should be glad to give the students an invitation to his 

 extensive woods whenever they could avail themselves of it. 



The LATE Mr Hanbury on the Departmental 

 Committee's Report. 



The late President of the Board of Agriculture, in the course 

 of a speech delivered in the House of Commons on 21st April 

 1903, said : On the question of afforestation there were certain 

 recommendations of the Departmental Committee to which he 

 could say offhand that effect would be given. The Commis- 



