214 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



[The number of probationers appointed in 1907 was 18; in 

 1908, it was 16 ; in 1909, it was 12 ; last year it was 10 ; and for 

 the current year it is 5. We beUeve the reduction in numbers 

 to be due to over-recruitment in previous years, and it appears 

 unlikely that, at any rate for some years to come, the present 

 number will be exceeded. This small number of appointments 

 gives an average of i§ students to each of the three Universities 

 now permitted to train candidates for the Indian Forest Service. 

 We hope that, for these few students, the three Universities 

 named may each find it possible to maintain the high standard 

 of training hitherto provided by the Government of India, at 

 Coopers Hill and recently at Oxford, for candidates for their 

 Forest Service. If not, the Service must inevitably suffer. — 

 Hon. Ed.] 



