FORESTRY EDUCATION. 105 
secure an income commensurate with the sacrifices which they 
have made in educating themselves. 
The working forester would be a practically trained man, who 
_ need not necessarily, at any rate not at present, visit a forest 
school, unless he desires to work himself up to the position of 
a wood manager. The future employés of the latter class require 
superior training. Unless you keep this distinction clearly in 
yiew, all your attempts are likely to lead to disappointment, 
On looking over what has been done up to date, I find that 
there are three distinct means of acquiring a theoretical knowledge 
of forestry—(1) The training of working foresters at the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh ; (2) the lectures given in connection 
with the Department of Agriculture of the University of Edin- 
burgh ; and (3) those given in the Edinburgh School of Rural 
Economy. Over and above, I see it stated that it is intended 
to start forestry instruction at various other places. 
- Although I have considerable hesitation in expressing an 
opinion, owing to my incomplete knowledge of the local con- 
ditions, still, as an outsider, I cannot help thinking that energy 
and money are likely to be wasted by running on too many lines 
all at once. For some time to come your chief energies should, 
in my humble opinion, be directed to the education of the future 
wood managers, while the working foresters will, for the present 
at any rate, do well to seek their training in well-managed forests. 
In my opinion, you would do better if you, at the start, were to 
concentrate operations, so as to make one definite scheme a reality, 
and that scheme should be to perfect the education of your future 
wood managers, or under whatever title they appear upon the 
scene. In other words, I should advocate one centre of instruc- 
tion, consisting of (1) theoretical instruction in connection with 
a university or agricultural college, where instruction in the 
auxiliary sciences is already provided ; (2) woodlands where the 
practical instruction can be imparted, because in forestry theory 
and practice must go hand in hand. 
As regards the first point, theoretical instruction,—a_ beginn- 
ing has been made in this very city, where my friend Colonel 
Bailey is delivering lectures on forestry. The arrangement needs 
only further development, and to be put on a proper footing, so 
as to bring the subject of forestry, as regards its importance, on 
a par with other branches of learning. 
The difficulties are much greater in coming 1o the practical 
