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appointed head forester on the extensive English and Irish 
estates of the Marquis of Lansdowne. I think that is an example 
which may well stimulate other young men to greater efforts in 
their scientific studies. In regard to the Endowment Fund for a 
Chair of Forestry in the University, this Society has continued its 
exertions to some purpose. It has brought the subject before the 
University Commission, and the Commission has given it a very 
favourable hearing. Forestry has now found a place among the 
subjects of study for the Bachelor of Science degree, It is most 
desirable that any one who takes the B.Sc. degree in Agriculture 
should have a competent knowledge of Forestry, which is surely 
a most important department of Rural Economy. I notice in a 
document issued by the Commission, that there is a specific 
recommendation that a Chair of Forestry should be established 
in the University of Edinburgh. Now, we are to have in the 
Botanic Garden the practical teaching of working foresters; but 
it is also right that we should have the higher teaching in the 
University of Edinburgh—teaching that will be more fitted for 
proprietors, and factors, and lawyers, as also for the young men 
who have passed through the course of study in the Garden, and 
who may desire to go on to the University. I cannot conceive of a 
better way for a proprietor to spend a little of bis money than 
in setting apart for the staff on his estate one scholarship, or bursary, 
which would enable a deserving young man, who had passed 
through the Course at the Garden, to crown his training, as it 
were, by taking a year or more at the University. In various 
other ways a Chair of Forestry in the University is really a most 
important thing; and the response which has been made to the 
application for funds, I consider extremely satisfactory. We have 
here a list of subscriptions amounting to close on £2000. 
Now we are aiming at raising £5000; because, counting on the 
encouragement that Government has already given us, we have 
every reason to expect that when we raise £5000, Government 
will add £5000 more. What we still want, therefore, is £2500 
or £3000, and surely we may safely count on the patriotism of 
Scotsmen to raise that sum. It has been suggested that the 
list of subscriptions should appear in the public prints, accom- 
panied by a statement of the objects which the Society aimed at. 
I think we have cause for thankfulness that we have every prospect 
of an early and satisfactory termination to our exertions. 
The Hon. Mr Wauprecrave-Lesuiz thought that without much 
