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cultural College, Cirencester, and in seconding a vote of thanks to 

 Dr Schlich for his address on that occasion, said : Dr Schlich's great 

 knowledge of the subject was well known throughout the world, and 

 he felt that they were greatly indebted to him for having sketched 

 out for them a syllabus of instruction for the woodreeves or 

 woodmen to %vhom he just now alluded as under tuition in the 

 Government forests adjoining the Forest of Dean. That was, of 

 course, a very small experiment, but it was an experiment, and if 

 it should turn out to be a successful one, he was in great hopes 

 that the advantages of education in forestry might be extended 

 not only to the woodreeves in the Government forests in 

 Gloucestershire and in other parts of the kingdom, but also to those 

 who took an interest in the higher work of forestry — he meant the 

 head woodmen and land agents who were concerned with the 

 management of woods on the great estates throughout the country. 



Forestry Instruction at the Forest op Dean. 

 The following note has been received from Mr Stafford Howard : — 

 " With a view to giving effect to the recommendation contained in 

 paragraph 25 of the Report of the recent Departmental Committee 

 on British Forestry, the Commissioner of Woods in charge of Dean 

 Forest and the Highmeadow Woods adjoining, has arranged, with 

 the sanction of the Treasury, to start an experimental course of 

 instruction for student woodmen who will be employed in these 

 Crown woods during the time of their training. Mr C. 0. Hanson, 

 of the Indian Forest Service, has been appointed Instructor, under 

 the supervision of Mr Philip Baylis, the Deputy Surveyor of Dean 

 Forest. The classes will be held in the Crown Office, Coleford, and 

 will begin about the middle of January 1904. The course will 

 be spread over two years, and will include instruction in Forest 

 Botany, Sylviculture, Forest Mensuration, and Protection of 

 Woods. Eight young men have applied to become students ; six 

 from the Forest of Dean, where they are already employed, and 

 two from Windsor. This is as many as employment can be found 

 for at present. It is hoped that next year, when the first eight 

 will have completed the first part of the course, and will go on to 

 the second part, that eight more may be taken on to take up the 

 first part in succession. At the end of the- first two years, and 

 every year afterwards, an examination will be held, and those 

 student woodmen who pass satisfactorily will receive a certificate. 



