REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. 335 
“Would you be prepared to give the Committee a rather more 
definite sketch as to how you would propose to arrange the sys- 
tem?” ‘One great advantage of its being in connection with the 
Committee of Council on Education is this: it is desirable to have 
young Scottish foresters thoroughly educated. They are fitted by 
heredity and by early training for giving themselves entirely to 
forest work ; it is, therefore, desirable that they should be specially 
trained. In connection with the School of Mines in London and 
the School of Science in Dublin there is ample provision made for 
the support of any of the students who require support, and yet it is 
not given as a dole, or as an alms, but as the result of competitive ex- 
amination and merit.”—“‘ Did you hear the evidence given by Colonel 
Pearson as to the staff he would think desirable for a forest school ?” 
“J did.” —“ Do you concur with that evidence?” “No. He speaks 
of Cooper’s Hill College; I speak of a school in very different circum- 
stances. The idea of having it in connection with the Committee 
of Council on Education rather than with the University is, that 
there is a possibility of a gradual development in the former case, 
whereas if it were in connection with the University you would be 
tied to one professor. Now it seems to the student of forest science 
as ridiculous to speak of one professor of forestry as to speak of one 
professor of medicine or of one professor of theology. If it were in 
connection with the School of Science there might be one individual, 
such as Colonel Pearson referred to, at first taking the whole 
management ; and there might be, at comparatively little expense, 
specialists obtained from the Continent to take particular branches 
of study for three weeks, or six weeks, or three months at a time, 
until it was seen from the results produced that it would be 
desirable to incur increased expenditure in getting a larger staff of 
officers and instructors.” 
“Have you prepared a detailed curriculum which you would 
suggest; a three years’ course of study?” “I have. My sugges- 
tions are as follows :— 
“First YEAr.—Winter Session.—Instruction to be given in the 
structure and physiology of trees and shrubs, and in the geographical 
distribution of forests; in the treatment of forests by Sartage, by 
Jardinage, by & tire et aire, by les compartments, or the Fachwerke 
Methode of Germany; in the application of this to coppice wood, 
with a view to securing, along with other advantages, a sustained 
production of wood ; and in the application of it to timber forests, 
according as the object may be to secure from these a maximum 
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