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Structure of Timbers both in the Easter term, 19 lo, and in the 

 Lent term, 191 1. Mr Brooks gave, in the latter term, a 

 special course of lectures and practical work on Diseases of 

 Trees and Timbers. 



" Excursions with students were made to the Duke of Bedford's 

 woods at Woburn, to the Marquess of Salisbury's woods at 

 Hatfield, to Earl Cadogan's woods at Culford, to the Earl of 

 Leicester's woods at Holkham and Fulmodestone, to Sir Hugh 

 Beevor's woods at Hargham, to Colonel Duncombe's planta- 

 tions at Waresley, to Mr Paley's woods at Ampton, and to 

 Mr Clinton-Baker's plantations and pinetum at Bayfordbury. 

 During the long vacations of 1910 and 191 1, the Reader 

 inspected the practical training of students for the diploma 

 on the woodland estates of Durris in Scotland and Long Ashton 

 near Bristol ; and he also visited, at different times, numerous 

 estates in the neighbourhood of Cambridge. During last 

 Easter vacation, the Reader made a tour in northern Italy, 

 the eastern Pyrenees and Spain, with special reference to the 

 pines and elms that are found in those regions. 



"During the Michaelmas term, 1910, Mr W. F. Perre'e of 

 the Indian Forest Service, gave a course of lectures on Indian 

 forestry, which was attended by 7 students. Mr H. Jackson, 

 Conservator of Forests in the same service, has been appointed 

 to give a similar course extending over two terms in the year 

 1911-1912. These lectures are free to all members of the 

 University, but are intended mainly for probationers of the 

 Indian Forest Service, who are now allowed to pass their two 

 years of probation and to obtain their training in forestry at 

 Cambridge." 



Further experiments have been made in the sowing of elms 

 and the crossing of trees ; and the collections of specimens of 

 timbers, diseases of trees and forest botany have been largely 

 increased. Donations amounting to ^^3605 have been made 

 or promised for the development of the museum and laboratory 

 accommodation. 



The Forestry Account has continued to receive grants from 

 the County Councils of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Norfolk, 

 Northampton and West Suffolk. Twelve colleges — Clare, 

 Pembroke, Gonville and Caius, Trinity Hall, King's, Queen's, 

 St Catherine's, Jesus, Christ's, St John's, Trinity, and Emmanuel 

 — have also contributed. 



