1 82 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



which have been specially constituted for this purpose, and 

 which are, moreover, intimately connected with forests avail- 

 able for purposes of instruction. 



2. Sufficient means for original scientific research should 

 be placed at the disposal of the professors of such academies, 

 and their grading and pay should be made proportionate to 

 their positions. Special steps should be taken as regards the 

 training of future teachers. 



3. In the advanced state of science, a minimum of four 

 years' study is required for an education sufficient for the 

 demands of the present time. Three of these four years should 

 be devoted to studies at a technical high school. 



The complete course of training, Riebel proposes to regulate 

 in the following manner : — (a) Preliminary — A certificate of 

 having passed the final examination from a classical or modern 

 school of the first class, (d) A winter half year of practical 

 apprenticeship, during which a diary has to be kept, (c) A 

 year at a university — law, land revenue, general administra- 

 tion, political economy, finance, and history of administration 

 to be compulsory subjects, (d) One year military service. 

 (d, c, and d may be arranged in any sequence desired, but 

 must be completed previously to the course at the technical 

 high school.) (e) Three years' study at the high school, 

 including the first or scientific examination. This examina- 

 tion is conducted in two parts : the first, taken at the end of 

 the third or fourth half year, embraces auxiliary science, law, 

 and theoretical and practical administration ; the second part, 

 taken at the end of the academical studies, includes survey- 

 ing, all branches of technical forest science, and forest policy. 

 Comprehensive independent work is to be demanded in this 

 section of the scientific examination, and the examiners are 

 to be the academical professors. (/) Two years practical 

 work in the duties of the executive staff, the administrative staff, 

 and on working-plans, (g) Final examination {Staats-Examefi). 



The speeches of the two eminent leaders, based on their 

 respective theses, were followed by an animated discussion, 

 and it became at once evident, that even in Prussia opinion 

 — not excluding that of many present and former teachers at 

 high schools — leaned strongly towards a university education. 

 However, no formal resolutions were submitted at the first 

 reading. 



