130 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Forestry Exhibition was held at Edinburgh. The contributions 
to that great exhibition from all parts of the civilised world 
clearly showed to the public mind how deeply interested were the 
leading foreign countries, India, and even the smallest of our 
colonies, in maintaining their forests in a high state of produc- 
tiveness, and how thoroughly educated and trained in systematic 
Forestry were the men whom they entrusted with the management 
of forests, and the utilisation of their products. 
A series of lectures on Forestry subjects, delivered by experts, 
was one of the educational features of the Exhibition, and the 
stimulus that was given thereby to the public interest in the 
question, led to the promulgation of several schemes for the 
education and training of foresters. The chief among those 
schemes was the creation of a Chair of Forestry in the University 
of Edinburgh, and a considerable sum of money was raised for 
that special purpose, but it still remains unaccomplished. After 
much delay, and no small amount of effort by this Society and 
others interested in the question, a Lectureship of Forestry was 
established in Edinburgh University in the autumn of 1889. 
Dr William Somerville being appointed lecturer, he delivered 
the first course of one hundred lectures to a considerable body of 
students during the session 1889-90. On Dr Somerville being 
appointed Professor of Agriculture and Forestry at the Durham 
College of Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne, he was succeeded in the 
Forestry Lectureship in Edinburgh University by Colonel F. 
Bailey, R.E., who has since carried on the class with much 
success. Forestry education also forms one of the important 
branches of rural economy taught in the Royal Botanic Garden 
at Edinburgh, under the direction of Professor I. Bayley Balfour. 
In the curriculum of most of the universities in this country 
Forestry now finds a place; and it is taught in a more or less 
systematic form at all of the leading centres of education. Still 
it is felt that this country does not yet afford the complete 
training to foresters which prevails in all the principal states 
of continental Europe, and until that is accomplished by the 
establishment of a fully equipped forest school, with a proper 
forest area attached to it for practical work and scientific experi- 
ment, foresters cannot rest satisfied with the provisions made to 
qualify them for filling important positions in their profession, 
however grateful they may feel at the substantial advance made 
during the Queen’s reign. 
