348 REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. 
again to forests upon the Continent to study forest districts in 
various places and their management, to see the way in which the 
principles which they had been taught in the classroom are 
practically applied. We also use the forest near Windsor ; and 
I also expect that they will be taken on occasional visits to the 
New Forest, Forest of Dean, or to some forests in Scotland.”— 
“ Are there any facilities given to students who are not intended 
for the Indian Forest Service to take the course at Cooper’s Hill?” 
‘““ No actual orders have been passed by the Secretary of State upon 
the subject, but I may confidently state that every facility will be 
given to outsiders who want to join the course, and I have just 
heard that one young gentleman proposes to join in September to 
study on his own account.” 
“Would outside students join the whole course, including 
engineering, or would they join the forestry course only?” “There 
are many who join the course on their own account ; in fact, all 
who take the chance of obtaining an engineer’s appointment at 
the end of three years. We propose that this school should be 
made use of by those who are not directly interested in Indian 
forestry. But the difficulty of not following the same course as 
the Indian engineers is, that those who fail to obtain employment 
in the forest service of India have a difficulty in finding employ- 
ment elsewhere ; whereas an engineer can always find work if he 
has failed to get into the Indian service. Having gone through 
the whole engineering course, he can almost certainly get employ- 
ment elsewhere, whereas if the arrangement for the forest service 
of the Indian Government were an open one, and a certain num- 
ber of appointments were offered for employment in India, those 
who failed to obtain them would probably be perfectly unable to 
obtain employment.” 
“The Committee have been informed that, at the present moment, 
there is a large demand for gentlemen skilled in forestry, and that 
there is no means of getting them; that in the case of a colony 
requiring such persons to take charge of their forests they have 
been obliged to appoint foreigners, through not finding any 
properly qualified Englishmen to discharge the duty?” ‘That is so 
to a certain extent ; but as far as the Indian Department goes, 
which has been mentioned in connection with that point, I should 
be anxious to correct a slight misapprehension by stating that the 
Indian Government has been most anxious throughout to assist 
the various colonies in that direction ; and we have sent Indian 
