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and seedsmen: and among their other subjects of study at the 
College may be mentioned botany, entomology, mensuration and 
bookkeeping, agriculture, agricultural chemistry, building, land 
surveying, and geology. They were employed in the city and 
neighbourhood, and could not attend day-classes, or follow courses 
of study elsewhere. 
Such is the work now being carried on in Edinburgh, where, 
during the current year, sixty-four students have attended courses 
in forestry given by the University Lecturer, and were, for the most 
part, also studying auxiliary subjects at the institutions where the 
lectures in forestry were given. The course at the University is 
fuller than the other two; but its value would be very greatly 
enhanced if a Model Forest for practical instruction were available. 
Few of the students of this class have sought to follow the career 
of wood-manager; but their object has evidently been to obtain a 
knowledge of forestry that would be useful to them in occupations 
connected with land. It may, however, reasonably be hoped that 
as proprietors come to realise the advantage of bringing their woods 
under a regular system of management, the prospects of wood- 
managers will improve, and that young men who may desire to 
follow this career will attend the University class as the best means 
for obtaining professional instruction available in Scotland at the 
present time: the establishment of an independent school of 
Forestry will no doubt follow sooner or later, as future develop- 
ments may indicate. 
It would probably be an advantage if the evening classes at the 
Royal Botanic Garden and the Heriot-Watt College could be 
amalgamated. But there can be no doubt that in existing 
circumstances these classes meet a want. To men who have 
already been employed in woods, or who intend to become agents, 
factors, or foresters, an insight into the principles of economic 
forestry cannot fail to prove an advantage. It will be some time 
before the sole charge of the woods on estates in this country is 
placed in the hands of expert wood-managers ; the foresters are the 
men on whom, for the present, the majority of the proprietors will 
rely for the management of their woods. Experience has shown 
that the foresters now in charge of Scottish woods take a most keen 
and intelligent interest in the subjects dealt with in the class-rooms, 
are quick to appreciate improved modifications in practice, and to 
grasp new ideas presented to them. 
It can hardly be doubted that the lectures given in Edinburgh 
