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foresters for the service of this country, independently of those who 
are educated at Cooper's Hill for the Indian service?”  ‘* Cer- 
tainly.”—“‘ Are you aware that forestry schools have existed on 
the Continent of Europe for a very considerable time. There are, 
at present, nine such establishments in the German Empire—viz., 
two in Prussia, one each in Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemburg, Baden, 
Hesse-Darmstadt, Brunswick, and Saxe-Weimar. Therefore you 
would not think it at all excessive that there should be a forest 
school established in Edinburgh, and one established in London, 
irrespective of the Cooper’s Hill school?” ‘“ Most certainly not 
excessive.”—“ Are you also aware that schools of forestry have 
been established in the United States of America?” “ Yes, and 
I have seen schools in France, Germany, and Italy.”—‘“ You have 
seen the schools I have named just now, perhaps?” ‘I have seen 
the school near Dresden, in Germany; the school at Nancy, in 
France ; and the school at Vallombrosa, in Italy.”—‘‘ Are you 
aware that a very careful and elaborate system of education is 
carried out in those schools?”  ‘ Yes.”—‘‘I would just like to 
read for you briefly some of the principal points of education in 
the great school of Lystadt, Eberswald ; do you know it?” “TI 
know of it.”—“ It includes the cultivation of forests, forest improve- 
ments, and all similar matters which are necessary for the practical 
instruction of the pupils, and a very elaborate system of scientific 
education is conducted in preparatory courses for the training of the 
pupils in the highest possible way ?” “ Yes, I am aware that it is so.” 
“You are aware that in this country there is a very large con- 
sumption of timber, are you not?” ‘ Very large indeed ; there 
is no country relatively where it is more so.”—“ Did you happen 
to see the statistics furnished on this subject by Mr Simmonds?” 
“T did; I have seen the paper read before the Society of 
Arts.” —“ With your knowledge of England and Scotland, and 
what you know of Ireland, do not you think that with the assist- 
ance of a forestry school to propagate correct ideas throughout the 
country, a very material proportion of the supply of timber re- 
quisite for industries in this country could, after no very long 
time, be supplied from the home-grown plantations?” ‘TI think 
it would be very important. It is difficult to forecast what propor- 
tion we might be able to supply, but we might do a great deal 
more than we do at present to supply the needs of the country.”— 
“What we do at present is comparatively little?” ‘Yes, it is compara- 
tively little.’—‘* And you do think, I believe, that in a comparatively 
