344 REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. 
Pearson did to having a practical training station upon the spot?” 
“ No.”—“ You think that facilities for lectures and study should be 
given, either in connection with the School of Art, or in connection 
with the University, if it were to be in Edinburgh?” “TI do, but in 
Edinburgh the Watt Institute is also known as the School of Art, 
and therefore I would say, or in the Museum of Science and Art 
under the direction of the Committee of Council on Education.” 
—“ And that those who profited by these lectures should have the 
opportunity of taking excursions into the woodlands of the dis- 
trict to see what practical illustrations they could draw?” “ Yes, 
both weekly excursions into the immediate neighbourhood, and 
more lengthened excursions between the sessions.” ——‘“‘ You recom- 
mend Edinburgh as the best place for such a school from your 
knowledge of Scotland; do you recommend Edinburgh in pre- 
ference to Cooper’s Hill, or in preference to any other part of 
England?” ‘In preference to any part either of England, Scot- 
land, or Ireland, I may mention, with regard to Edinburgh, that 
the inhabitants have, at the expense of £20,000, purchased the 
arboretum with the view of its being made auxiliary to a school 
of forestry. In Edinburgh the first International Forestry 
Exhibition was held also with this in view, and some thousands 
of the articles sent to the International Forestry Exhibition have 
been transferred to the Museum of Science and Art. There we 
have an Arboricultural Society ; all interest in Scotland in arbori- 
culture seems to gravitate towards Edinburgh. We have exten- 
sive nurseries in the neighbourhood ; we have woods at no very 
great distance; and an offer has been made of a cheap feu of 
extensive grounds, extending from the suburbs of Edinburgh to 
the top of the Pentlands, varying 1200 feet in altitude, and 
including different descriptions of timber, all tending to point to 
Edinburgh as a place with peculiar advantages in this point of 
view. Then the circumstance of having an University, where 
students able to pay for an University education may go for the 
accessory studies, and at the same time the Watt Institute, where 
tradesmen, and those whose means are limited, can go through a 
similar course of study, adds to the importance of it.” —‘‘ But there 
are some similar advantages to be had in connection with Kew, 
are there not?” ‘Ifthe arboretum in Edinburgh were made what 
it should be (it is now in the hands of the Government), I believe 
more might be done than is done at Kew with a view to the pro- 
motion of the study of forestry. The arboretum at Kew consists 
