102 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



The Forestry Committee (1902) and Training in Forestry. 



The Forestry Committee (1902) contemplated that the training 

 in forestry of persons requiring it would be arranged as follows: — 



1 . Future Owners and Agents^ to be Trained at Universities and 

 Provincial Colleges. — The Committee considered that the scope 

 and character of the instruction then given at the Edinburgh 

 University was the least that should be aimed at, though it 

 might with advantage be carried considerably further ; and that 

 better instructional facilities, including a Forest Garden, should 

 be provided. Since the Committee's report was written, a 

 Degree in Forestry ^ has been instituted at the Edinburgh 

 University, with an advanced course in Forestry, and with 

 new special courses in Forest Botany, Forest Entomology, and 

 Forest Engineering. This involves two years' study at the 

 University, and a third year occupied in practical work abroad. 



It may be confidently anticipated that when work at Inver- 

 liever and in the Highland and Lowland State Demonstration 

 Forests is fairly started, the financial potentialities of scientific 

 forestry will become more generally recognised than they are at 

 present ; and that as soon as Bachelors of Science in Forestry 

 have gained sufficient practical experience to be entrusted with 

 a responsible charge, the owners of large estates will, when 

 filling vacancies on their staff of factors or wood-managers, give 

 them a preference, and will be willing to offer salaries sufficient 

 to attract such men into their service. When this comes about, 

 there will be no lack of candidates for the Degree, a further 

 inducement to take which will be found in the better prospect it 

 will secure of highly paid colonial employment. 



2. Men who propose to take up Lafid Agency as a profession, but 

 who cannot afford to spend Three Years at a Utiiversity. — This 

 class to be trained at Agricultural Colleges, by courses similar 

 to those at the Universities. In this connection the Committee 

 say : " Inasmuch as Land- Agents are entrusted with the manage- 

 ment of large estates, which usually comprise a certain area under 



' For further information regarding the Degree, see Transactions, Vol. XX. 

 p. 248. 



