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the higher and fuller curriculum." — "Would it be necessary to have 

 a regular curriculum 1 " " There is a regular curriculum for India 

 and the Colonies, and 1 think such a one should answer for land 

 agents." — " Would it not be enough to have merely an Examining 

 Board ? " " An Examining Board is one thing, and a curriculum is 

 quite another. The curriculum provides for a regular and con- 

 tinuous course of study. As to the Examining Board, I am not 

 prepared to say what would be the best composition for such a 

 board." 



" The difficulty connected with this matter in Scotland is that 

 our foresters are quite small men, who are paid £1 or 30s. a week, 

 and the great desideratum in their case is to get some kind of 

 training which they can get through in some three or four months'?" 

 " Yes, I am aware of that difficulty, and that is the reason why I 

 have suggested that there should be elementary courses at Edin- 

 burgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and St Andrews, or in perhaps two out 

 of the four Scottish universities." — " What is the shortest course 

 from which such a man could really get advantage V "I should 

 say three months. Of course, six months would be better." — 

 " Would a course of three months' training be long enough to give 

 a man sufficient theoretical instruction to enable him to usefully 

 apply his knowledge in the management of woodland"? " "Yes, and 

 to enable him to go on afterwards with books. It would put him 

 in training for future progress on his own part. It would give him 

 scientific methods of study, and then he could go on by himself 

 afterwards." — " That might be quite a cheap course 1 " " Yes, the 

 great expense would be having to live in Edinburgh or in Glasgow, 

 or wherever it might be ; but that is what as poor students of other 

 subjects are doing now in Scotland." — " And Scottish students, as 

 a rule, are very frugal, are they not 1 " " Certainly." 



" Are there any trees which are not usually grown in England 

 now, but which could be grown at a profit in this country 1" "I 

 have thought over that matter a great deal, and I cannot say for 

 certain that I know of any that could be. The growth of such 

 trees is so different in this country from what it is in their native 

 country. Taking, for example, the larch disease which has been 

 spoken of here this morning : I remember the larch disease forty 

 years ago as exi.sting then, though not to the same extent. We are 

 growing the larch now in a climate which is totally different from 

 its native climate. It is an eastern tree; it begins in the Tyrol, and 

 extends eastward into Eastern Siberia ; it is not really a western 



