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type implies forestal conditions that are correspondingly advanced, 
and under existing circumstances a simpler form of academic 
instruction will suffice. 
In Edinburgh, at the present time, three courses of lectures on 
forestry are given, viz.:— 
First.—That delivered daily, during the winter session, at the 
University, usually to a small number of students who are 
following other courses, and who for the most part wish to qualify 
themselves as factors or estate managers. The class has been 
attended by a few sons of landed proprietors, a few men who 
contemplated seeking a career in the Colonies (though it is not 
known that any of these have left the United Kingdom), and 
by others whose aim, directly or indirectly, was associated with 
the management of land, and who selected forestry as one of 
the alternative subjects provided for the degree of Science 
in Agriculture. In addition to class-room lectures, these 
students are given such practical instruction as is found possible 
in neighbouring woods, saw-inills, nurseries, timber - yards, 
creosoting works, etc., the owners of which have courteously 
made them welcome. The course of lectures on Forestry at 
the University was opened by Professor William Somerville in 
the autumn of 1889; and since then the number of students 
enrolled has been 107. 
Second.—Lectures delivered by the University Lecturer at the 
Royal Botanic Garden, to a class which during the past winter 
numbered thirty-one students, of whom sixteen were foresters and 
the remainder were gardeners. The curriculum embraces evening 
classes in chemistry, physics, meteorology, geology, surveying, 
mensuration, entomology, botany, forestry (about forty lectures), 
and horticulture, and it extends over three years. The students 
are employed in a paid capacity during the day, and are therefore 
prevented from participating in excursions. Their practical training 
in sylviculture proper is obtained either before they enter, or after 
they leave the Garden. 
Third.—A. course of lectures in forestry was commenced this 
year at the Heriot-Watt College—where the University Lecturer 
has addressed a class of thirty students on one evening a week 
during the past winter session. The members of this class were 
for the most part clerks and law apprentices, who were qualifying 
themselves for situations as land agents, factors, estate architects, 
clerks of works, superior bailiffs, foresters, gardeners, nurserymen, 
