FORESTRY EDUCATION IN ORKAT BRITAIN. 143 



then established is attended principally by probationers for 

 service in the Indian Forest Department, who have been 

 nominated by the Secretary of State for India, but other members 

 of the university may attend the instruction in forestry. 



The Diploma in Forestry is granted to members of the 

 university who have pursued a prescribed course of study 

 extending over two years ; undergone a course of practical work 

 lasting nine months, of which about seven are spent with selected 

 German forest officers in Germany ; and satisfied the examiners 

 in prescribed examinations. 



The fees for instruction in forestry and subjects auxiliary to it 

 amount to about ^63 during the two years, or an average of 

 ;^io, IDS. a term. In addition, students must meet the expenses 

 (except railway fares) of the excursions in Great Britain which 

 form part of the course. Students who are probationers for the 

 Indian Forest Service are required to defray all their expenses 

 at Oxford, but they receive, under certain conditions, a sum 

 of ;^24o from the Secretary of State for India during the course 

 of probation, which, in the case of those who have already 

 passed with Honours in Natural Science, lasts for two years, 

 and, in the case of the remainder, for three years. 



School of Forestry, Forest o/Dean.—l^Wxs school was established 

 in January 1904, with the object of carrying out in one of the 

 Crown forests the recommendations made by the Departmental 

 Committee. The course of instruction extends over two years. 

 The number of young men entering each year is usually eight. 

 Since the school was started twenty-seven students have received 

 certificates. The minimum age of entry has recently been raised 

 from sixteen years to twenty. The young men are paid 15s. a 

 week for their work, they receive practical instruction in the 

 woods and attend lectures in a class-room, the subjects of in- 

 struction being forest botany, silviculture, forest mensuration, 

 and the protection of woods. A special building has been built 

 for the purposes of the school, and contains a class-room, museum, 

 and carpenter's shop. 



Applications for admission to the school, and for further 

 particulars, should be addressed to Sir E. Staff'ord Howard. 

 K.C.B., Commissioner of His Majesty's Woods and Forests, 

 Whitehall, London, S.W. 



University College of North Wales, Bangor. — A lecturer in 

 forestry at this college was appointed in the spring of 1904. 



