316 REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. 
strongly impressed with the desirability of doing something to 
promote forest education in this country; or rather, to put it in 
the way of young men who may be desirous of obtaining it.” —“ You 
are just as strongly of opinion as ever that a forest school in this 
country would be desirable?” ‘Some forest education.” —“ And 
that not only from the point of view of our Colonial and National 
forests, but also with regard to woodlands in the hands of private 
owners?” ‘“ Yes; more especially with regard to the woodlands in 
the hands of private owners ; the others are more or less satisfac- 
torily provided for.” 
‘‘ When you were before the Committee last year your evidence 
was mainly of a general character; but you were good enough 
to say that if the Committee were re-appointed you would make 
some more or less definite suggestions as to the course which 
should be pursued ; have you thought of any definite suggestions 
as to the course which should be pursued; have you thought 
of any definite suggestions to offer to the Committee?” “I 
have thought over the subject since, and I am prepared to suggest, 
not in detail but in a general way, what I think would be best 
adapted for the education of young men who would be likely to 
have charge of our forests ; more especially private forests.” 
“ Would you have the goodness to lay before the Committee the 
information you have prepared?” ‘‘ The persons for whom a forest 
education in England is required may be divided into two classes : 
first, those intended for India and the Colonies ; second, those who 
will seek employment at home. The education of the former is now, as 
far as I am aware, provided for in a satisfactory manner at Cooper’s 
Hill, save in one essential particular, viz., the want of a tract of 
forest for practical training. For the second no education has as 
yet been provided. They are of two classes, viz.: firstly, land 
agents, being young men of good position and education managing 
one or more estates, including the woodlands on them, with salaries 
varying from £200 to £500 or £600 a year; secondly, wood- 
reeves, wood-bailiffs, woodmen, and foresters, with salaries varying 
from £80 to £120 a year. There is no field, however, in Great 
Britain (at present, at least) in which an educated forest officer, 
such as we find on the Continent, might gain a livelihood. The main 
object, then, seems to be to provide a certain amount of practical 
education in forestry to supplement the present generally very useful 
education given to the land agent class, and at the same time to 
teach the wood-bailiffs and foresters who are employed under their 
