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tunities for practical instruction in sylviculture. To this will 
be added the pineries and sand-reclamation planting in the 
Cape Flats, together with the fine arboreta and forests at Ceres 
Road, comprising forest estates of 20,000 acres Such instru- 
ments as are required for practical forest work, including plane- 
tables, barometers, chains, dendrometers and calipers will be 
provided. 
Arrangements will be made for granting certificates or 
diplomas to students who have satisfactorily completed the 
course in forestry. Applications for further information and 
for admission to the School of Forestry should be addressed 
either to the Chief Conservator of Forests or to the Registrar, 
South African College, Cape Town. 
We cordially welcome this indication of progress, and wish 
the young institution every success in its endeavour to train 
men for the important task of developing the enormous possi- 
bilities which unquestionably exist in South African forests, 
FB, 
Sir HERBERT MAXWELL ON NEGLECTED WOODLANDS. 
On March the 22nd, at the Carpenters’ Hall, London Wall, Sir 
H. Maxwell, F.R.S., delivered an interesting: address to a crowded 
audience on “The Neglected Resources of our British Wood- . 
lands.” The chair was occupied by Lord Leconfield. Sir Herbert 
Maxwell, in the course of his address, said it was generally 
recognised, even in this country, that the resources of our 
woodlands had been seriously neglected in the past, and were 
capable of development, slow he was afraid, if once they were 
put on a sound system of management. The economic import- 
ance and increasing urgency of the question, in view of the 
rapid diminution of the world’s visible timber-supply and the simul- 
taneous increase of consumption, had occupied the attention of 
all European Governments. What were we doing in England to 
meet the coming scarcity? He was sorry to say that we had 
not yet got beyond the stage of inquiry. Forestry operations 
were naturally slow, but to allow a quarter of a century to be 
occupied in inquiry was far too long. He entered Parliament in 
1880; he left it, voluntarily he might say, this year. In that 
time two Committees, one Select and one Departmental, had 
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