DISCUSSION ON FORESTRY ADMINISTRATION AND EDUCATION. 1 3 



5 . Hast of Scotland College . 



The proposals with regard to the institution of a Diploma 

 course in this college were submitted and considered. It was 

 considered that General Physics should have a place along with 

 Chemistry in the first year's course of instruction, and that 

 practical woodwork might be omitted. Timber conversion 

 should come in under Forest Utilisation in the second winter. 

 It was also recommended that before the diploma is granted to 

 a student he should have had not less than three years' practical 

 training in forestry, and that the first of these years should be 

 over before beginning the course and the other two years before 

 the diploma is actually granted. It was also recommended that 

 the practical training should be described as "approved training 

 in practical forestry," instead of "on an approved estate." 



The Committee was strongly of opinion that a Certificate 

 course is unnecessary, and that a uniform or similar Diploma 

 course should be established in all the colleges. 



6. Birnam School of Practical Forestry. 



The Committee welcomed this scheme, but expressed regret 

 that there was no intention meantime to train young men under 

 military age who were apprentice foresters on equal terms with 

 soldiers and sailors. They were of opinion that the provision 

 being made was not adequate to the circumstances, and that the 

 scheme should be extended so that a larger number of men 

 could be dealt with and a substantial number of trained men be 

 made available for carrying out schemes of afforestation. 



They also expressed the hope that the teaching would be 

 efficient, as the success of the school will depend so largely 

 upon the man in charge and on his influence on the 

 students. 



Sir James Campbell. — " I have not had the benefit of seeing 

 this minute and have only heard it read this moment, but I take 

 it that it recommends diplomas to be granted by Colleges of 

 Agriculture and not by Universities. I should not like to 

 commit myself, or the Body I have the honour to represent, 

 to this view. We in Aberdeen have special relations with the 

 University, and so far as I can gauge the feeling of the College 

 in Aberdeen they would prefer that diplomas would be granted 

 by the University. Personally, I think the diplomas would 



