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the instruction of land agents and persons competent to give advice 
as to our own woods.” —“‘ You think it would be regrettable if arrange- 
ments were made for the training of Indian officials which did not 
admit of other students obtaining access to the same school?” 
“‘ It appears to me that it would be little short of monstrous. I 
can quite understand that upon administrative grounds what the 
Indian Government does is like the operations of a foreign country ; 
the Government of India will educate those people at its own cost, 
and in a manner perfectly distinct from anything which the Im- 
perial Government does ; but that appears to be the only difficulty 
of a substantial character. I cannot conceive that any difficulty 
of administration could not be overcome, and that the appliances 
required for one thing would not be extended to the other.” —“ It 
would probably be of advantage to the Indian Government that the 
schools should be open to other students ; it would diminish the 
expense for instance?” ‘Certainly, one would hope that they 
would have professors really competent to teach the most accurate 
kind of knowledge, and it would increase the interest of the pro- 
fessors to have a large class, rather than to be entrusted with the care 
of only a few men.” —‘“The fees imposed in the Cooper’s Hill School 
appear to be £180 a year ; that might be quite reasonable under 
the conditions of the Indian forest service, but would you not con- 
sider it to be upon too high a scale for a general forest school?” 
“Tt strikes me as rather a high rate of expenditure ; it amounts 
practically to the cost of a university education. There are many 
men who go to Oxford and Cambridge who do not spend more 
than that sum ; that of course fixes it as an education of a costly 
kind.” —“ Speaking generally, your view is that the Indian school 
might be utilised as a nucleus of a forest school, and that its being 
thrown open to others upon the same conditions which would 
make it accessible to forest students, would be of advantage to the 
owners of woodlands generally ; is that your impression?” ‘I 
think that can be hardly doubted ; there might be a difficulty in 
mixing the two classes of students, but that might be met by 
taking the lower classes of men in short courses during the 
vacation.” 
“‘' Your idea would be to make the school of forestry applicable 
to India and the colonies as well as to our own country?” “I 
should like to get all the fish possible into the net ; and, if we had 
such a school, to make it as useful as possible. I think it is sur- 
prising, considering how large is the interest of the English race in 
