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are afforded for practical work. (/>) There are further courses of 

 instruction in connection with the extension scheme of the 

 college. These are delivered to foresters and forest workers at 

 centres within the district that naturally fall within the sphere 

 of interest of the college, where there are suitable and sufficient 

 wooded areas. In 1 907-1908 there were given sixteen such 

 lectures, at which 650 persons were in attendance. In 1908-1909 

 there were fifteen lectures, with an attendance of 820. As 

 the lectureship in forestry was not established in the college until 

 1907, these facts are full of promise for the future. 



luverliever Estate. — This estate, containing about 12,530 acres, 

 situate on the west side of Loch Awe, Argyllshire, and lying at 

 an elevation of between 120 and 1400 feet above sea level, was 

 purchased by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods and 

 Forests in the year 1907. It is proposed to plant it gradually at 

 the rate of about 150 acres per annum. Planting has been 

 commenced this season near the centre of the estate. A nursery 

 is being formed at Ford, and a number of seed beds have been 

 sown and seedlings planted. A forester has been appointed, who 

 resides on the estate and acts under the general supervision of 

 the committee. At present eleven men and four boys are 

 employed. (Further information respecting this estate appeared 

 in the Joitrnal of the Board of Agriailiureiox June 1909, p. 219.^) 



Alice Holt Forest. — In the Report of the Departmental 

 Committee on Forestry, to which reference has been made, it 

 was recommended that the forest of Alice Holt should be made 

 available as a demonstration area for the practical study of 

 forestry. In order to carry out this recommendation, as far as 

 possible, the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods and Forests 

 obtained in 1904 from Dr Sclilich, Ph.D., CLE., an exhaustive 

 report on the condition of each of the woods comprised in the 

 forest. In this Report Dr Schlich expressed his general approval 

 of the operations which had recently been carried out, and 

 developed in detail a working-plan for their continuation in the 

 future. In drawing up the working-plan regard was had to this 

 point, one of the objects being the provision of the best object- 

 lesson in the treatment of woods of this description from a 

 practical point of view, according to the methods of scientific 

 forestry. 



^ See Trans, xxiii., p. 106. 



