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they have collections of various specimens 1 " *' Yes, collections of 

 everything connected with forestry, forest products, and the produce 

 of forest industry, the implements that are employed in forest 

 management, and mechanical, hydrostatic, hydraulic, and other 

 illustrations of physical science." 



" Besides the students of the class you describe, are there any of 

 a subordinate class corresponding to our woodreeves ? " " Not 

 there. They attempted an inferior school elsewhere, but it was 

 found not to be successful. It was found better to entrust the 

 training of workmen employed to the highly educated and trained 

 students who had left the school." — " In your opinion, after well 

 considering the subject, do you think that the very best principle to 

 adopt in the event of any school being established, is to endeavour 

 to instruct, as far as possible, scientifically the land agents who 

 have charge of the woods, and leave it to them to instruct, so far as 

 they can, their subordinates, namely, the woodreeves, bailiffs, and 

 working men under their charge V "I am not prepared to say 

 that. What I admire in Spain is, that instead of just going on in 

 the rut they have adapted the training to the requirements of the 

 country, and we too should adapt our training to the requirements 

 of Britain and our Colonies." 



" Your views, as already given in evidence, were rather in favour 

 of having a school in each country 1" "I should be in favour of 

 one national school." — " You said that in Scotland it would be 

 better to have one at Edinburgh." *' Yes." — " When you speak of 

 having one national school, do you mean for the whole of Great 

 Britain V "I believe that in Edinburgh we have facilities for the 

 establishment of a school of forestry that would meet the require- 

 ments of the whole of the Empire, India, the Colonies, and home." 

 " You would propose to make Edinburgh the nucleus for the whole 

 of Great Britain, would you?" "I have no objection to the 

 national school being situated elsewhere, but I know of no situation 

 in which so many advantages could be combined as in Edinburgh. 

 In Edinburgh, with the existing arrangements, we can at a com- 

 paratively small expense establish a school of forestry equal to the 

 most celebrated schools on the continent of Europe." 



" Is it the fact that there is a very great difference between the 

 circumstances of forest management and forest growth in Scotland 

 and England ? " " Yes." — " Would it not therefore be desirable to 

 have a school in England as well as one in Scotland V "I believe 

 that no disadvantage would result from having a national school in 



