3D0 REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. 
for this country, then it is absolutely necessary to have access to 
some forests in the vicinity which are managed in such a manner 
that they are fit to serve as training grounds. If, on the other 
hand, it is a question of giving some general ideas of forestry to 
land agents, as I have heard mentioned, that is to say, to gentle- 
men who manage large estates, but are not supposed themselves 
to carry out the real forest work, then a course of lectures might 
be arranged with occasional visits to some more distant forests. 
I should like to make a distinction in that respect.”—“ As a 
matter of fact, the Continental forest schools have in most, if not 
in all, cases tracts of woodland open to them for the purpose of 
instruction?” ‘Yes, that is true; in most cases they are im- 
mediately attached to a school.”—‘ Is it the invariable rule, or 
are there exceptions?” ‘It is not the invariable rule. I went 
last year to look specially at three of the principal forest schools 
in Germany. In the case of two of them, namely, those at 
Giessen in Hesse Darmstadt, and at Tharand in Saxony, the 
schools are in immediate connection with forests. A third, which 
is probably the principal forest school in Germany, is that at 
Munich. There the forests are not immediately attached to the 
school ; but there is a reason for that. The forest school there is 
part of the University, and the students who study there are 
expected to have already spent two years at another forest school 
of a class where there is a forest attached to the school, that is to 
say, the aspirants to forest appointments in Bavaria go to 
Aschaffenburg, where they study for two years, and there are 
forests immediately connected with that school. Having done 
that, they proceed for two more years to Munich to study forestry 
from a more general point of view, with the view of obtaining 
ultimately the highest appointments in the forest service of the 
country. I wished to explain that there was a special reason 
why there are no forests attached to this great forest school at 
Munich, where there are six professors of forestry, apart from the 
ordinary university professors.”—‘ And even in that case the 
students are expected to have passed a part of their course in 
schools which have a forest attached to them?” ‘ Yes, to do the 
thing properly, it is absolutely necessary to have control over a 
certain area of forests in the vicinity of the school.” —“ Now, with 
regard to the lower class of those who are employed in the 
management of woodlands, say, the bailiffs and wood-reeves, 
would you consider that in their case also a certain amount of 
