112 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
ForRESTRY INSTRUCTION AT ARMSTRONG COLLEGE.! 
An important advance in the development of the forestry 
branch of Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, has been 
effected by an agreement between H.M. Office of Woods and 
the College authorities, under which the latter take over the local 
management of Chopwell Woods, in the county of Durham. 
These woods, which are within a few miles of the College, extend 
over an area of nearly goo acres, and carry crops of larch, spruce, 
Scots pine, oak, ash, and other trees, most of which were 
planted about fifty years ago. The woods will be gradually 
brought under a proper rotation of cropping by the clearing and 
replanting of the more mature portions from time to time, and the 
carrying out of this work will afford favourable opportunities for 
demonstrating the various operations relating to practical forestry. 
Mr J. F. F. Horner, H.M. Commissioner of Woods, has 
obtained the consent of the Treasury to a house being provided 
in the woods as a residence for the College lecturer in forestry, 
Mr A. C. Forbes, and to continue to pay as heretofore the 
ordinary working expenses of the woods. The arrangement will 
facilitate the holding of short courses for practical foresters and 
others desirous of acquiring a knowledge of the subject, while as 
a practical demonstration area for the students attending the 
College forestry class the woods will be invaluable, and should 
render Newcastle an excellent centre for forestry instruction. 
[Scotland is still without a Demonstration Forest, or even a 
Forest Garden.—Hon. Eb. | 
DEAN FoREST SCHOOL OF FORESTRY. 
The Department of Woods and Forests has intimated that 
a fourth class, for students between the ages of sixteen and 
twenty-three, is to be started early in November. Instruction 
is given free, and extends over two years. Wages are at the 
rate of from 8s. to ros. per week, on the principle of no work 
no pay, but students would require from 5s. to 7s. in addition 
from private sources. Further particulars upon application to 
the Secretary of this Society; or to the Office of Woods, 
1 Whitehall Place, London, S.W. 
1 Reproduced from the Journal of the Board of Agriculture for June 1906, 
by permission of the Controller of His Majesty’s Stationery Office. 
