REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. sky 
orders in our own private woodlands, not only the elements of 
sylviculture, but also the best known methods of conducting 
ordinary forest work, such as planting, thinning, pruning, the 
management of coppice, and the best way of disposing of the crop ; 
also, if possible, at the same time to provide a practical training 
station for the Cooper’s Hill forest pupils. It seems to me that 
the essential point, to which all others are subordinate, turns on 
the possibility of obtaining a sufficiently large block of forest, say 
from 3000 to 4000 acres, half in leaf forest and half in conifers, 
in a convenient locality, as a practical training ground. This tract 
must be placed under a trained forest officer; and for reasons of 
economy it seems to me that he should be the Professor of 
Forestry at Cooper’s Hill for the time being. Under him there 
must be a practical executive officer, with an ordinary woodman to 
do the work. If such a tract of forest could be obtained, say, in 
the Crown forests outside Windsor Park, the other details seem to 
me very easy. I should think that an arrangement might be made 
with the Professors of Forestry and Physiological Botany at 
Cooper’s Hill to give, at certain convenient periods, lectures in 
those subjects of a simple, practical, and useful character. The 
executive officer in charge of the forest should teach the pupils all 
kinds of practical work on the ground, including the estimation of 
standing crops of timber, and the measurement of fallen trees ; 
while occasional tours to see forest work in other places could be 
arranged for those who chose to follow them. In order that all 
societies and public bodies, interested in the good treatment of the 
land, should have an interest in the system of education, I think 
that the general direction and control should rest with a council or 
board, of which the Director of Kew Gardens might be ex-officio 
President, and the Forest Professors at Cooper’s Hill members, 
and to which the Royal Agricultural Society, the Highland Society, 
the Surveyors’ Institution, and similar bodies should send dele- 
gates, while two or three of the great owners of private woodlands 
should be requested to sit on the board. This board would be 
necessary to keep the teaching in touch with the requirements of 
the country ; and it should control the course of study, arrange for 
the examinations, and granting of diplomas, and regulate the scale 
of fees. It must have a paid secretary for correspondence. I do 
not think that any great expense for buildings would be necessary. 
There would be wanted a lecture hall, with desks, etc., handy to 
the forest, and a few huts, perhaps, for the students, who might 
