REPORT ON A VISIT TO SCOTTISH AND ENGLISH FORESTS. 2I1 
Under Control of Forest Officers.—This accessory forest must 
necessarily be incomplete at first, but would be perfected in time ; 
but the essential point is that it should be placed under the absolute 
control of the officers of the school. ‘This can only be done by 
choosing a State forest. If it should be considered desirable, 
also, in order to render the teaching more complete, the State 
ought to purchase or lease in Scotland a forest suitable for the 
purpose. 
Professors of Forest Economy.—We would also suggest the 
founding of professorships of “‘ Forest Economy” at two of the 
great public seats of technical instruction. One of these might be 
instituted at Cooper’s Hill for England, the other at Edinburgh for 
Scotland. 
The professors should be selected from among the young men 
who have received a thorough forest education on the Continent, 
and have had eight or ten years’ practical experience in India. 
They should publish from time to time a series of articles in the 
leading agricultural and forest journals, in order to influence the 
landowners in favour of a systematic management of their wood- 
lands, and to prove to them that uncontrolled pasturage is the 
certain destruction of forests, and that, in the long run, the timber 
furnished by forest land is of greater value than pasturage or 
game. 
The establishment of a course of sylviculture at Cooper’s Hill 
would have the great advantage of giving to the young engineers a 
rudimentary knowledge of a science which cannot fail to be useful 
to them in their after career. It would, perhaps, also be possible by 
this means to modify the present method of recruiting the Indian 
Forest Service, by offering to the students at this excellent institu- 
tion a certain number of appointments in that service. 
The course of instruction afforded at Cooper’s Hill would then com- 
prise all the essential parts of the education of a forester, and it would 
only be necessary to supplement it by sending the selected students 
for one year to a Continental school, where they would have the 
opportunity of perfecting themselves in the practical details of forest 
culture. After this, it would be advisable for them, accompanied 
by their English professor, to complete their training by making a 
tour of inspection in some of the mountain forests of France, 
Germany, and Austria. So prepared, the young men would be 
perfectly capable of undertaking forest work in any portion of the 
Indian Empire. 
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