334 REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. 
“What do you think would be the most suitable situation for 
a forest school?” “ Edinburgh.”—“ Do you think it would be 
desirable to have one forest school for England and Scotland, or 
do you think that the conditions of Scotland are so different that 
it would be desirable to have twot” ‘“ My belief is that such 
tuition might be followed in Edinburgh as to fit English foresters 
for the management of English forests; but if, from national 
feeling or from disposition, it is considered better to have such a 
school as Cooper’s Hill, which is founded upon a very different 
model from that of our Scottish educational institutions, by 
all means let us have it; but my opinion is, that we could 
do all that is required perfectly well in Scotland.” —“ You 
think that one forest school would be sufficient?” “One 
would be quite sufficient, and there is an advantage in having one 
thoroughly equipped and thoroughly efficiently conducted institu- 
tion.” —‘* How far do you think a forest school for the use of Great 
Britain should be formed upon the model of the modern Continental 
schools?” ‘I am acquainted with every school upon the Continent, 
and have visited several. There are many upon the type of which 
a British school might be formed; there is no one to which, as a 
type, the British school should be conformed, much less any one 
which would serve as a model.”—‘* Which of their forest schools, 
upon the whole, do you think would be the one most nearly 
adapted to our requirements?” “If in Edinburgh, I should think 
the school in Spain.’—“If the school were established in Edinburgh 
what arrangements do you suggest should be made with regard to 
it?” ‘It depends very much upon the form that it may take. If 
it were a private enterprise, managed by the Scottish Arboricultural 
Society or the Highland and Agricultural Society, one form ; if it 
were connected with the Watt Institute, another ; if connected with 
the University, a third; if connected with the Museum of Science 
and Art under the Committee of Council on Education, a fourth.” 
— Which, upon the whole, do you think would be the best?” “I 
have a very strong conviction that, upon the whole, it is best that it 
should be connected with the Science and Art Department of the 
Committee of Council on Education, if it were founded upon some 
such model as the School of Mines in London, or the School of 
Science in Dublin.” —‘“ You think, then, it would be better that it 
should be a Government school rather than be left in any way to 
private enterprise?” ‘It would be very much better that it should 
be a Government school.” 
