2 6 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



So important is the museum as an adjunct to the efficient 

 teaching of forestry, that we find in all the continental forestry 

 colleges that considerable sums of money have been spent on 

 this part of the equipment alone, and yet, in some instances, 

 although with treble the space available here in Edinburgh, the 

 cry was often that more room was required. Where all is so 

 good it is difficult to particularise, but as examples of efficiency 

 in this respect, I will instance the museums at the Forestry 

 School of Nancy in France, the Imperial Forestry Institute in 

 St Petersburg, and the Forestry College at the University of 

 Munich. The last named, so far as its building accommodation 

 and museums are concerned, forms the nearest parallel to the 

 position of Edinburgh University, and it will be of interest 

 to briefly glance at the accommodation provided. 



The Forestry College at Munich forms part of the university 

 of the town and State, and considerable sums of money were 

 spent a few years ago with the object of bringing it thoroughly 

 up to date. The buildings devoted to forestry instruction are 

 two in number, both situated in the grounds of the university. 

 The old building contains the museums and rooms devoted 

 to botany and zoology. The accommodation for each of these 

 sections consists of a commodious lecture hall, professors' and 

 assistants' rooms, packer's room, and two fine rooms for the 

 museums. It is outside the province of these remarks to deal 

 with the contents of these museums, but I will say that they 

 merit the closest inspection of any forester who wishes to 

 educate himself in this direction. 



The new building, which was opened about the year 1900, 

 is the most perfect institution of its kind that man could have 

 devised. The whole of the inside fittings are of wood ; highly 

 polished parquet flooring being used throughout, whilst the 

 rooms are handsomely panelled with various kinds of woods. 

 The chemical, mineralogical, metereological laboratories, etc., 

 are in the basement ; forest surveying, mathematics, and 

 forest wood museums on the first floor, and forest instruments, 

 forest products, and models and diseases of woods on the 

 next floor. Each of these branches or departments of science 

 has its own museums — one or two rooms as are required — 

 its own large lecture hall, with professors' and assistants' rooms, 

 laboratories where required, packer's room, etc. 



I am chiefly concerned here with the accommodation aff'orded 



