142 REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. 
attempted in this country?” ‘Certainly ; there are a good many 
of the German forest schools affiliated with the universities where 
the course is four years. Take Carlsruhe and Tubingen, in those 
cases there are three forest professors only who give lectures on 
forestry and forest management and botany, and then all the rest 
of the course is going on concurrently with the regular course in 
the university. It is only a portion of the time which is devoted 
to forestry instruction, and the rest of it is going on in the ordinary 
way. I think that is the best way of teaching them.’—“ In the 
first instance, you would probably have to deal with a class of 
young men who would be going to superior schools or universities 
up to, say, their second year, taking them and submitting them to 
such an examination as you think necessary. Do you think that 
with such a special education in forestry of two years you would at 
the end of that time be able to turn them out fitted for the service 
of the State in this country for forest operations?” ‘“ Quite so ; 
they are very well taught in two years in Nancy. At Nancy they 
take sylviculture the first year ; that is to say, the growth of trees 
and the physical conditions of their growth. The second year they 
take aménagement, which is the management of forests and their 
economical treatment, felling, and management with regard to the 
production of a proper amount of revenue; the two things are 
distinct ; they teach one thing the first year, and the other the 
second year.”—‘ In addition to the system of forest school educa- 
tion, would it not be very desirable that something in the nature of 
forestry education should be added on to the curriculum of some of 
our universities, following the example which is set in some of the 
universities on the Continent?” “I thought I said a little while 
ago that I did not think Oxford or Cambridge were suited to it, 
but I said that I should utilise the University College and King’s 
College for the purpose, a forestry course being added on to the 
education given there.”—“‘ But for an expenditure, which you put 
at about £600 a year, there should be no insuperable difficulty in 
setting up at least one forest school in this country to begin with ?” 
“Certainly not ; I think the first thing would be to get a building, 
for we could then appoint the officers, and let them make a forest 
museum and the things that are necessary. Then I would set 
them to give lectures, and to that I would, if possible, superadd 
some lectures in what is called physical botany ; that is a necessary 
part of the forest education.” 
Have you sufficient knowledge of the existing woods in England 
