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to the present time it has been entirely so ; but I have only been to 
Cooper’s Hill one day since a forest school has been established 
there, and, except that I know personally the people connected with 
it, I have no information about what they do at Cooper’s Hill.”— 
“Tt is not like the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester, where 
they have practical and theoretical instruction combined ; there is 
no forest in connection with Cooper’s Hill to which the students can 
be taken?” “No; that is precisely what I wished to convey by my 
evidence. To my mind the instruction now given at Cooper’s Hill 
will be thrown away unless a tract of forest is provided handy to 
which pupils can go. I do not see how it can be carried on without 
it."—“ As matters stand, by the time the pupil gets into actual 
practical contact with forestry, he has probably forgotten all about the 
theoretical instruction?” ‘‘ Yes. The only way to convey instruc- 
tion is, after having been in the lecture-room, to take the pupils on 
to the ground and point out the facts. Unless you do that they do 
not believe it ; that is done most carefully in the Nancy College.” — 
“Then our pupils are compelled to go to Nancy for, what we call 
in medicine, clinical instruction; but the conditions of forestry in 
France are very different from what they are here in respect to 
climate and trees?” ‘No; I do not think there is much difference 
in France from what there is here. I sent Broillard’s book on 
forestry to one of my brothers, who possesses some woodlands, who 
wrote to me: ‘I am very much surprised to find that I have the 
same condition of things here as M. Broillard’s book indicates ; one 
would not have thought it possible that the conditions were so 
much the same upon both sides of the Channel.’ If you went to the 
Alps the conditions would be different, of course, but not upon the 
level in the centre of France.”—‘“ Have you calculated what would 
be the expense to a forester if you sent him up to study?” “It 
would cost him from 10s. to 12s. a week to lodge and board in 
some country inn, and if you added whatever the fee was, say from 
£5 to £10, and the journeys, that would be about the expense.” 
“ From the evidence you gave last year, you did not recommend 
that a Scottish forester should be sent up to Cooper’s Hill?” “No; 
Tshould hope that the Scots would establish a similar school in Edin- 
burgh, which would be in the same relation to their own people. It 
is better not to think of too many things at once; if you could 
establish one as a model, the others would be able to work upon it. 
I should never think the Scots would send their pupils to Cooper’s 
Hill; but if you could once start the thing here, I have no doubt a 
