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The Preliminary Examination will be in the following 
subjects :—(1) English; (2) Mathematics up to, and including, 
Plane Trigonometry ; (3) German; (4) Latin or French. 
The subjects of subsequent study, during a period of not less 
than three Academical years, will be as follows :—(1) Zoology ; 
(2) Botany; (3) Natural Philosophy; (4) Chemistry, including 
Elementary Organic Chemistry; (5) Forest Botany; (6) 
Agricultural Chemistry, including the Chemistry of Soils; 
(7) Geology; (8) Forest Entomology; (9) Forestry, theoretical 
and practical, in all its branches; (10) Elementary Engineering ; 
(11) Geometrical Drawing and Surveying. Some of these will 
be “full courses” and others will be “half courses.” Five full 
courses, or their equivalent (counting two half courses as one 
full course) must be taken at the University of Edinburgh, and 
must include the course in Forestry. The remainder of the 
courses may be taken in other universities or other institutions 
approved by the University Court, or under teachers recognised 
by the Court for purposes of graduation in the: Science of 
Forestry. 
It is laid down that residence and practical work in forests 
will be required of each candidate to such an extent and under 
such regulations as the Senatus may from time to time appoint. 
In the present regrettable absence of facilities for giving 
adequate practical instruction in this country, it will be 
necessary for candidates to undergo a practical course of from 
nine to six months’ duration abroad. But it is hoped that the 
early provision of a Forest Garden and a State Demonstration 
Forest (in which, if it comprised a fair amount of growing woods 
up to middle age, much instructive work could be done) will 
render it possible to greatly reduce the period of study abroad. 
F. B. 
Tue Strupy OF CONTINENTAL FORESTS. 
Writing in the Zzdian Forester for March 1907, on “ Forestry 
Tuition at Oxford and Dehra Dun,” Mr A. J. Gibson says :— 
“The Dehra Dun course gives a good grounding in forestry in all its 
branches, illustrated by an excellent and thoroughly practical outdoor pro- 
gramme of work; but the illustrations can only show Indian forests as they 
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