REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. 531 
Windsor Forest as the most practicable station for learning forestry ; 
would there be in the area that might be allotted for that purpose 
varying conditions of climate, aspect, and altitude, sufficient to 
make it a good practical training forest?” “You would have to sup- 
plement it, undoubtedly ; but what is absolutely necessary for the 
purpose of practical explanation would probably be found there. 
I do not see how you can get on without something of the sort.”— 
“And you think it might be found for practical purposes in the 
Windsor Forest?” ‘‘I believe in the forests round about there it 
might be found.” —“ And, although 130 miles is possible to be reached 
from the school, it would be far better to have something you 
could see in the course of an afternoon’s walk?” ‘It would be abso- 
lutely necessary that the pupils should be able to go into some 
woods within an easy walk.”—“ With regard to this very interesting 
tour of M. Boppe in Scotland, have you any idea how the expenses 
of that were met?” ‘The Indian Government paid for everything ; 
we were met everywhere by carriages, and we were sent about very 
well indeed.” —“ There was nothing to show in the Paper that was 
handed in that it was entirely organised by the Indian Govern- 
ment?” “It was certainly organised by the Indian Government 
entirely. I was desired to go with M. Boppe.” 
The next witness called was the Rev. Jonny CroumpBie Brown, 
LL.D,, of Haddington, N.B., the well-known author of several 
treatises on the education of Foresters, and of works on various 
important branches of Forestry. In giving his evidence, which 
throughout bore directly on the subject, he stated as follows :— 
“You have kindly come here to give the Committee your idea 
of how or under what conditions a School of Forestry might be 
established?” ‘Yes. The particular point upon which I can supply 
information to the Committee is this: I know a good deal of the 
waste that is going on in our colonies. I have made myself 
acquainted with the most advanced furest economy of the day ; 
and I am also acquainted with most of the schools of forestry 
upon the Continent ; I have visited several, and I am prepared to 
state how I consider Scotsmen can be most efficiently, and at the 
least expense, trained up so as to manage our colonial forests 
advantageously. That is the particular point to which I have 
given attention.” —“ But the Committee are principally interested in 
our home forests?” ‘I am aware of that ; but the point upon which 
I can give infurmation principally is with reference to colonial 
