336 REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. 
size of timber, or a maximum produce of wood, or a maximum 
pecuniary return, along with natural reproduction, sustained pro- 
duction, and progressive improvement of the woods; and in 
measures to be employed in the conversion of coppice wood into 
timber forest, of timber forest into coppice wood, of mixed woods 
into either, and of either into mixed woods. With attendance on 
the classes in the University for the study of natural history, of 
mathematics, and of engineering ; or, with attendance on the classes 
in the Watt Institution and School of Arts for the study of 
mechanical philosophy and of mathematics. 
“ Summer Session.—Attendance on the classes in the University 
for the study of botany and vegetable histology, and of practical 
natural history, and of practical engineering ; or attendance on 
classes, if open, in the Watt Institution for the study of botany, 
and of mechanical and geometrical drawing. 
“ Autumn Months.—Tours of observation, with or without the 
teacher, in woods and forests in Britain, in France, in Germany, or 
in the north of Europe. 
“Seconp YEAR.—Winter Sesscon.—Instruction in regard to 
forest economy, forest legislation, and forest literature in Britain ; in 
France and in Germany, countries in advance of all others in forest 
science, and in the practical application of it to the management of 
forests ; in Russia, where arrangements are being made to introduce 
and to carry out extensively the improved forest management prac- 
tised in Germany and in France; in Finland, where arrangements 
have been made to manage the forests in accordance with the 
requirements of forest science; in Sweden, where the latest 
arrangements suggested by forest science are being carried out with 
vigour; in British colonies; in America, and in India, where have 
been introduced many of the suggestions of modern forest science, 
and the forest economy practised on the Continent of Europe. 
With the attendance of the classes in the University for the study 
of theoretic chemistry and practical chemistry, natural philosophy, 
and the practical application of the same; or with attendance at the 
classes in the Watt Institution and School of Arts for the study of 
chemistry and practical chemistry, of engineering, and of geology. 
“ Summer Session and Autumn Months.—Practical experience in 
the management of woods, or in the management of nurseries, to be 
acquired under the direction of approved foresters or approved 
nurserymen. 
“Tarp YEAR.— Winter Session only.—Instruction in the chem- 
