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a wood-reeve or wood-bailiff; but in many respects it would also 
be the same?” “Up to a certain point it would be very much the 
same ; but a person in the position of a land agent, who is to have 
the control and management of woodlands, ought to know much 
more, because he ought to know the effects of climate on species, 
so as to know what is suitable to plant in certain cases.”—“ There- 
fore there would be no difficulty in making the instruction which 
was intended for the higher grades very useful for the lower 
grades?” “They might be made to fit into each other. I ex- 
pressed myself strongly about that, I remember, last year.” 
‘“‘ How long do the studies last in the French Forest School ?” 
‘The training in the French Forest School extends over two years ; 
only it must be remembered that it extends over other subjects 
than forestry; there are about 45 lectures in forestry, the same 
number in botany, half that number in geology, and half that 
number in mineralogy each year.”—‘‘ How long do the Indian stu- 
dents remain at Nancy for that portion of their training?” ‘ They 
have hitherto remained there three years, that is to say, two years 
and eight months exactly, viz., eight months as a preparatory course 
before they went into the school, and during the remaining two 
years they followed the same course as the French pupils. In the 
preparatory course the pupils went through, in a preliminary 
manner, with one of the professors, the general subjects of educa- 
tion, so as to put our students generally upon a level with the 
French pupils, and aw cowrant with the subjects.” —“ In the case of 
wood-reeves and wood-bailiffs, how long would you propose to 
devote to their forest instruction?” TI should think from six weeks 
as the minimum to three months as the maximum, according to the 
amount of training that you might wish to give them, or that they 
might wish to have. A man of that sort could get all that it would 
be necessary for him to know in three months.”—“ You think that 
an owner of woodlands having an intelligent wood-reeve, if he sent 
him for three months to the school, would then find him fairly 
qualified to manage his woodlands?” “‘ Yes, certainly, three months 
would be ample for a man who ‘knew himself’ in a forest to 
manage afterwards, because he would at once pick up things when 
shown the reason of them.” 
* Although our forests in England may not be quite so well 
adapted as those in France and Germany for the purpose of this 
instruction, you consider that there are woodlands which would 
serve the purpose?” “It would be distinctly necessary to bring 
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