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1. The Instructional Staff. The study of forestry so depends 

 on a number of cognate subjects, such as botany, chemistry, 

 geology, zoology, surveyhig and forest engnieering, etc., that 

 it is essential that the student should be given first-class courses 

 in these matters. Excellent courses are given in all the 

 continental colleges. There remains the subject of forestry 

 itself, comprising the various branches of silviculture, forest 

 management, forest valuation, forest protection, forest utilisation, 

 the law of the forests and procedure and accounts. To lecture 

 on these various branches the best continental colleges retain 

 the services of at least three men, professors and assistants, 

 many of the former having vi^orld-wide reputations in their 

 various branches. These men are also often responsible for 

 their own departments of work in the school forest garden and 

 instructional forests. This work, as we shall see, falls under 

 two heads. They deliver courses of lectures in the lecture hall, 

 and they conduct the students on their excursions made into 

 the woods to illustrate these lectures, and personally supervise 

 every piece of practical work laid down for the student to do. 

 Since the minimum time in which a student can finish the 

 forestry course is two years, the professor requires at least one 

 assistant to conduct a part of the lectures, for the junior and 

 senior students are both necessarily attending courses at the 

 same time, and one lot may be in the woods, whilst the other 

 is in the lecture hall. 



At the well-known forestry school at Munich, the home of a 

 number of famous foresters, the various branches of forestry 

 science are in charge of three professors. Prof. Mayer takes 

 Silviculture, Forest Utilisation, Protection and Foreign Forestry ; 

 Prof. Endres, Forest Policy, Administration, Valuation and 

 Finance ; whilst Prof. Schiipfer lectures in Forest Management 

 and Working- Plans, Estimation of Increment and Yield. 

 Each of the professors is responsible for the excursions, 

 laboratory and practical work of their various courses. 



2. Good Museums. The educational value of a good 

 museum is fully recognised. It need not be enlarged upon 

 here. Forestry is peculiarly a science whose tuition on the 

 one side and assimilation on the other is dependent upon two 

 essentials : — a thoroughly efficient system of practical work, and 

 up-to-date well-planned museums exhibiting in a simple and 

 efficient manner the various details connected with forest work. 



