144 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOITISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



At first forestry was attached to the Department of Agriculture, 

 but since July 1907, it has occupied an independent position as 

 regards both the college and the university. 



Two courses of study are offered by the college, one of these 

 qualifying for the degree of B.Sc. in Forestry in the University 

 of Wales, and the other for a College Certificate. A third 

 course, leading up to a diploma, is at present under consideration. 

 The Degree Course extends over three years subsequent to 

 passing a Matriculation examination, while the course for the 

 Forestry Certificate may be covered during a single session. 

 Candidates taking the Degree Course devote their first qualifying 

 year to general scientific study, attending classes in botany, 

 chemistry, physics, and zoology. During their second year 

 they pursue the study of these subjects to a more advanced stage, 

 and enter upon forestry work. In the third year forestry is con- 

 tinued and final courses are taken in certain prescribed science 

 subjects. In order to obtain the forestry certificate students 

 need not matriculate, but have to satisfy the examiners in 

 chemistry, botany, zoology, and agriculture, in addition to 

 forestry. 



The number of students attendin:,^ forestry classes averages 

 seven or eight each session. The fees are low, amounting only 

 to ^15, 15s. per annum. 



Several large proprietors have kindly placed their woods at 

 the disposal of the college for forestry instruction and practice, 

 while an experimental area has been laid out by the Department 

 at Chirk in Denbighshire. Lord Penrhyn allows the classes to 

 visit his park, which immediately adjoins the college. In the 

 park there is an excellent collection of conifers and broad-leaved 

 trees, while there is also a large estate nursery which is useful for 

 demonstration purposes. There are woods amounting to several 

 hundred acres within a comparatively short distance of the 

 college, and use is made of these for excursions. 



The freehold of the land at Chirk was presented, in 1906, to 

 the Denbighshire County Council by Mr John Mahler of Penissa 

 Glyn, upon condition that it should be devoted to forestry in- 

 vestigations carried out by the Department at Bangor. The 

 land is 50 acres in extent, and it has been divided into some 

 thirty-two plots, each plot constituting a separate experiment. 

 It is situated at a high elevation (850-1250 feet), and is of a 

 character frequently found in Wales. The planting has now 



