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England, a national school in Ireland, and a national school in 

 Scotland ; but my belief is that it would be the better course in 

 every way, not only pecuniarily, but in other ways, to concentrate 

 the whole of our energy upon the establishment of one central school, 

 wherever the situation may be." — " Where would it be desirable to 

 establish the school in Ireland, if one were established there T' 

 " In Dublin." — "Do you know anything of the Agricultural College 

 at Glasnevin 1" "I know little or nothing of it. I know more of 

 the College or School of Science similar to the School of Mines in 

 London. It appears to me that whatever advantages may be 

 derived from the students going to Glasnevin, it would be better 

 that they should go from Dublin to Glasnevin than that they should 

 start at Glasnevin and come into the School of Science, or whatever 

 the designation of it may be, in Dublin." 



" You are rather in favour of adapting the existing institutions, 

 than of founding quite a new school of forestry 1 " " To some ex- 

 tent I am. I believe that the best plan would be to have a school 

 of forestry in Edinburgh under the Department of Education, so 

 that that would be to a certain extent a new institution, and yet 

 it is at the same time combining it with an established institution." 

 — " In addition to that would you have another school in Dublin 

 and one in London 1" "I think that it would be preferable to 

 concentrate the whole of our energies upon the development of a 

 school in Edinburgh." — " Your view is, that the principles of 

 forestry are the same everywhere, and that the variations adapted 

 to the different conditions in different districts would be better 

 treated practically afterwards 1 " " Yes, they could be acquired 

 on the spot. In short I would treat the study of forestry as the 

 study of medicine is treated. The students of medicine are made 

 thoroughly acquainted with the theory of disease, the phenomena 

 of disease, the remedial applications, and remedial treatment, and 

 then they are sent out to apply the information they have 

 obtained to whatever patients come under their notice." — " It 

 would not be safe, would it, to send out a doctor to practice who 

 has only been trained theoretically ; he has to go to the hospitals 

 fii'st 1 " " Yes, he goes to the hospital to see what is done there, 

 which is met by the student in forestry going either alone or with 

 a professor to forests in the immediate neighbourhood or at a 

 greater distance from the school ; it is not required to have the 

 students personally treat the patients in the hospital. They hear 

 why this or that is done, and what the effect of the treatment has 



