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schools, and the best of the men who started their careers in 

 the woodmen's schools would be encouraged to attend the 

 courses of instruction at the universities for the higher technical 

 training provided at these institutions. The universities and 

 colleges were at present severely handicapped in their efforts 

 to supply the kind of technical instruction that would be most 

 useful to the students afterwards, by lack of funds for the proper 

 equipment of their Forestry Departments. The University of 

 Aberdeen and the North of Scotland College of Agriculture 

 were in a position to offer a good training in the fundamental 

 sciences, and the students could also get a good training in 

 silviculture, but there were other branches of forestry for which 

 the necessary facilities were lacking. In some of the American 

 universities provision had been made for Professorships or 

 Lecturerships in lumbering, as well as in silviculture, and their 

 example would have to be followed by the institutions in this 

 country where the highest kind of technical instruction was 

 provided, if their students were to be able to compete with 

 the graduates of the American universities. In concluding, 

 Mr Leslie spoke of the prospects open to the students as State 

 foresters or foresters in the service of private landowners, and 

 also dealt with the possibilities of nursery work as a business, 

 as well as with the opportunities provided by the saw-milling or 

 lumbering industry both at home and in the colonies. He 

 stated that there would be good opportunities in the colonies 

 for men with a thorough technical training in the different 

 branches of forestry, including a knowledge of the working 

 of saw-mills and the manufacture of timber. 1 



1 A report of Mr Leslie's lecture, on which the above notes are based, 

 appeared in the Aberdeen Journal on the 1st of November 1919. 



