318 REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. 
wish to stop there; also, perhaps, two or three cottages for 
labourers and subordinates. But I do not anticipate any large 
outlay, as the bulk of the pupils would live elsewhere. I should 
assume the probable expenditure as follows : 
Salary to lecturers, 
£500; resident lecturer and executive officer, including house 
rent, £350; wood bailiff, £100; paid secretary, £200 ; journeys 
and miscellaneous, £200. Total annually, £1350. I have not 
included anything for expenditure on the forest, as that should be 
paid for from the thinnings ; as for museums and collections, those 
at Kew and Cooper’s Hill should suffice for all. To meet this ex- 
penditure there would be the fees, not only of regular students, 
but it may be presumed of many wood-reeves and wocd-bailiffs, 
whom their masters would be likely to send there for instruction. 
The deficit, if any, in early years may very well be supported by 
Government. But it must be clearly understood, that to be success- 
ful, such a tract of forest must be under the absolute control of the 
forest professor charged with it, who must be in fact its surveyor, 
and subject only to the financial control of the Treasury. As for 
the pupils, it is to be hoped that most of the young men who seek 
a land agent’s career would gladly avail themselves of such a sup- 
plementary education with a view of augmenting their salaries in 
the future; that young men of a subordinate class, who seek 
employment as wood-bailiffs or wood-reeves, would do the same ; 
and that many gentlemen who are possessors of more or less acreage 
of woodlands would gladly send for purposes of instruction the 
men who now manage their forests. It is certain that all these 
classes would derive enormous beuefits from the establishment of 
such a forest school.” 
“At present the Professor of Forestry at Cooper’s Hill has 
no control over any forests in this country, I believe?” ‘* Abso- 
lutely none.”—‘“ And the Indian students go abroad for their 
practical instruction in forestry?” ‘It is intended ‘that they 
should do so. Ido not know that up to this time they have been 
anywhere; but I have nothing to do whatever with Cooper’s Hill, 
or the training there, and I know nothing except from hearsay 
about it.’—“ But your impression of the intention is, that they 
should go abroad for their practical instruction?” “ Yes.”—“ But 
you would rather that the Committee should get that information 
definitely from the authorities at Cooper’s Hill?” ‘ Yes.” —“ The 
training of a person whowas to occupy the position of a forester would, 
of course, be carried further than that of a person who was to be 
