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off for the purpose of teaching forestry, in connection with the 
school at Edinburgh?” ‘‘ But I also contemplated that they would 
get into the Duke of Buccleuch’s, or some of these woods round 
about Edinburgh, for the purpose of daily education.”—‘ You 
would be aware that the Forest of Dean is very accessible from the 
Cirencester College?” ‘It is so, I believe.”—*“ It is only a few 
miles by rail?” ‘ But I prefer Cooper’s Hill. I think you would 
get more pupils at Cooper’s Hill than you would at Cirencester.” 
“ You came here more especially to give the Committee informa- 
tion as regards the establishment of a School of Forestry ; and I 
do not think we have had information exactly before us as to how 
long the School of Forestry has gone on at Cooper’s Hill?” “I 
think the Professor went there last September ; it is only just com- 
menced ; the pupils are doing their last year at Nancy now.”— 
“Then we must go further back, and ask you what steps the 
Indian Government took to have men educated for forest purposes ?” 
**T suppose it was in 1864 when pupils were first sent to Nancy. 
Dr Brandis organised a system of instruction upon the Continent, 
sending half the pupils to Germany, to Minden I think, one of the 
German forest schools, and the other half to Nancy.”—“ Was that 
under the orders of the Indian Government?” ‘‘ Yes,”—“ They en- 
trusted him with the carrying out of the plans?” ‘“ Yes, they 
entrusted him with the duty of organising a system of education. 
When I came home at the end of 1872 the pupils had got idle, 
and there was not much work being done. They were getting out 
of hand ; and very soon after I came home at the end of 1872, the 
Indian Government sent me to Nancy, to look after the pupils and 
superintend their education, and they transferred all the pupils 
very shortly afterwards from Germany to Nancy; so they were all 
immediately under my control, and there I remained eleven years.” 
—“ How many pupils had you under your charge ?”’ “ At first I had 
not more than three a year; but they increased very shortly after- 
wards, when six, seven, and eight were sent to me each year ; and of 
late years I had as many as twenty going through the three years’ 
course.” —“ Did they go free?” ‘At first the Government used 
to give them £50 a year to pay for their education; lately they had 
to pay 3500 francs, which they paid entirely themselves.” —“Are you 
speaking of the English or the French?” ‘ Of both ; the French 
had to pay for instruction there.”—‘‘ They were admitted by com- 
petition?” ‘Yes, and the English people were admitted by competi- 
tion, and after their examination (they generally had an examination 
