FORESTRY IN SCOTLAND IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA, 129 
1894, The Forester. James Brown and Dr John Nisbet. 
1895, Manual of Forestry, vol. iii.: ‘ Forest Management.” 
Prof. Wm. Schlich. 
Manual of Forestry, vol. iv.: “ Forest Protection.” Prof. 
Schlich and W. R. Fisher. 
1896. Manual of Forestry, vol. v.: ‘ Forest Utilisation.” Prof, 
Schlich and W. R. Fisher. 
1897. Yews of Great Britain and Ireland. Dr John Lowe. 
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The above list is not exhaustive of the treatises on Forestry 
subjects which have appeared in the Queen’s reign, but it includes 
the most useful and important, and is sufficient to show that our 
Forestry literature has made great progress in the period. The 
completion of Dr Schlich’s standard work, Manual of Forestry, 
about a year ago, as appropriately marks the close, as Loudon’s 
great work, Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, marked the 
opening of the Queen’s ‘‘ Diamond ” reign. 
We can only refer in a few words to that invaluable section 
of Forestry literature comprising the 7ransactions issued by this 
Society, “‘A Forester’s Library” in themselves ; and many other 
valuable papers in the Z7’ransactions of the Edinburgh Botanical 
Society, the Highland and Agricultural Society, and others of the 
learned societies. A vast amount of the science and practice of 
forestry is to be found faithfully recorded in these and similar 
publications of the Victorian era. 
Forestry EDucATION. 
The education of British foresters in the science and art of 
their profession is entirely a creation of the past sixty years. 
Indeed, it may be truly said that no attention was given to the 
question until 1854, when the Scottish Arboricultural Society 
was instituted by a small band of intelligent and far-seeing 
foresters, who were anxious and determined, so far as lay in their 
power, to raise the status of their profession, and place Scottish 
forestry on a sounder basis as an important section of rural 
industry. How far their views may be ultimately carried out 
time alone can tell; but all through its existence the Society has 
kept Forestry education prominently before it, and employed 
every means at its command to press it forward. A great im- 
pulse was given to the question in 1884, when the International 
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