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As further progress is made, this will change, and new problems 

 of a pi'ofessional chai'acter will present themselves, which will tax 

 to the utmost the special knowledge and the skill of the forester 

 in India. 



Mj advice in this matter is, to keep the two undertakings 

 entirely distinct, the elaborate professional and scientific training 

 of those who aspire to appointments in the superior forest staff 

 of India, and the establishment of forest schools for wood- 

 managers and foresters in Scotland, England, and Ireland. In 

 Prussia and other countries of the Continent of Europe, the State 

 is the largest forest proprietor ; moreover, it is justly held td be 

 the duty of the State to watch over the good management of the 

 forests which belong to towns, villages, and public corporations. 

 In these countries, therefore, it clearly is the business of the State 

 to organise the system of forest instruction. It is different in 

 Great Britain, where, out of a total ai-ea under timber of about 

 2,800,000 acres, the Crown has only about 100,000 acres, while 

 the rest belongs to private proprietors. In the United Kingdom 

 the condition of things is similar to that which exists in some 

 parts of Austria, notably in Bohemia and Moravia, where the 

 large forest proprietoi's have formed two Associations for the 

 purpose of providing professional education for young men, who 

 desire to enter their service as wood-managers or foresters. The 

 professional education for the State forest service in Austria was 

 considered too high and too expensive for the requirements of 

 these private estates ; the proprietors therefore determined to 

 help themselves. The Bohemian school at Weisswasser was 

 established in 1855 ; students are required to pass through 

 a middle class school, and to serve a practical apprenticeship 

 of twelve months, after which the course of studies at the school 

 occupies two years. A forest district of 2900 acres, the pro- 

 perty of Count Waldstein Wartenberg, is attached to the school, 

 and placed under the control of the Director for purposes of 

 practical instruction. The Director, Chevalier Fiscali, is a dis- 

 tinguished forester, and under him is a staff of five professors, 

 one for those branches of forestry not taught by the Director 

 himself, one for mathematics and surveying, two for natural 

 sciences, and one for drawing and bookkeeping. Eulenberg, the 

 school maintained by the Association of Forest Proprietors of 

 Moravia and (Austrian) Silesia, was founded in 1851, and has a 

 similar organisation. No fees are paid by sons of foresters. 



