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in your judgment, be a great advantage, not only to the colonies of 
which you were speaking just now, but also to the mother country ?” 
“« Very great.” —“ You think that a scientific education and a regular 
course of training on the part of those who have the management 
of them would very much improve the condition of our wood- 
lands?” ‘ Very much.” 
“Do you consider it would be necessary to have a tract of 
woodland closely contiguous to such a school?”  ‘“ Not at all.”— 
“ But you would be of opinion that it would be necessary to have 
control of a tract of woodland, although it need not necessarily be 
immediately on the spot or contiguous?” ‘ I may state my opinion, 
and that is the opinion of the majority of the forest officials, forest 
administrators, and professors of forest science on the Continent.” 
—“ That the management of this particular tract of forest should 
be under the control of those who were charged with the instruction 
in the forest school ; is that so?” ‘No, not at all. The question has 
come up on the Continent in this form: a conference of German 
foresters, forest administrators, and professors of forest science was 
held, when the question was discussed: Is it desirable to have 
schools of forestry as separate and special institutions, or to have 
them connected with the higher schools and universities of the 
Continent. It was only incidentally that the question of forests 
came up in that connection. There were only three or four in 
favour of maintaining the old special schools in connection with the 
forests ; the rest, to a man, were opposed to it.” Then you do not 
think it necessary that the management of the woodlands in which 
the instruction is given should be under the control of those who 
give that instruction?” “ Although it is not necessary that it should 
be under the control of those communicating the instruction, it is 
desirable that there should be forests to which the students along 
with the professor may have access. They may be in the neigh- 
bourhood of the school; if in the neighbourhood so much the 
better; but they may be 100 miles off, or they may be 200 miles 
off. It is desirable that they should have forests to which they 
have access, but it is not necessary that those should be under the 
control or direction of those communicating the instruction.”— 
“ Supposing, for instance, the Cirencester College were to take up 
forest instruction if it had access to the Forest of Dean, that you 
think would be sufficient for the purpose?” “The principle would 
lead me to say so. I do not know the details of the Cirencester 
College, and therefore I cannot commit myself beyond that; but 
the principle involved would lead me to say so.” 
