102 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
should, between them, provide the means towards the cost of 
forestry education in this country? Supposing, for the sake of 
argument, they determined to take up the matter in real earnest, 
and to contribute one penny per acre of actual woodland annually, 
say for the next ten years, we should have for Scotland alone a 
sum of £3600 a year, as there are some 900,000 acres of woods. 
And if only one-half of the proprietors joined such an association, 
it would still have about £1800 annually at its disposal, a sum 
quite sufficient to pay for the desired forestry education, apart 
from any help which the State may be willing to afford. Or if 
they only gave jd. per acre, it would still be £900 a year. Iam 
sure there is nothing so very startling in these proposals, which, 
after all, ran on the same lines as those adopted in many other 
cases in this country. At any rate, they are thoroughly in accord- 
ance with the foundations of national life in Britain. 
How 1s Forestry EpUcATION TO BE ARRANGED ? 
Assuming, then, that the necessary funds for a proper start 
became available, the next question would be—How the course of 
education should be arranged? Perhaps the best way of explain- 
ing my views on this point will be to tell you shortly what we 
have done and are now doing at Coopers Hill College, and then 
to indicate my views as to what course should, in my opinion, be 
followed to suit the requirements of this country. 
More than thirty years ago, when Sir D. Brandis arranged for 
the education of candidates for the Indian Forest Department, he 
informed the home authorities that, as there were no forests in 
Britain managed on systematic economic principles, the training 
must be done on the Continent. He arranged, accordingly, that 
one-half of the candidates should be sent to France, and the other 
half to Germany. At the same time he suggested that some of 
the English Crown forests should be taken under systematic 
management, so that they might, in course of time, become avail- 
able as training grounds for British forest students. Of the 
latter suggestion no notice was taken. 
In the year 1883, when the Secretary of State for India had 
decided to start forestry education at Coopers Hill College, I 
induced the Government of India, in my capacity as Inspector- 
General of Forests to that Government, to point out to the home 
authorities that, if forestry education in Britain were to become 
