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The number of forest-officers likely to be required in Scotland 

 may, then, be summarised as follows : — 



Four Lecturers (as at present). 



Three Officers in charge of the Demonstration Forest. 



One or more Advising Officers available for private woods. 



One Officer for every 4000 acres fully afforested by the State 

 or, with its assistance, by private enterprise. 



14. Trai)ii)ig of Forest-officers — One School or Three 2 — The 

 above requirements certainly would not justify the development 

 of more than one centre for the training of forest-officers in 

 Scotland. In Bavaria, for example, which has an area of 

 woods larger than Scotland could ever possess, even if afforesta- 

 tion were pressed to its utmost limit, one school for higher 

 instruction in forestry is found sufficient. And although that 

 State has not, indeed, like Scotland, to provide officers for the 

 Indian and Colonial services as well as for home employment, 

 its school — the Forest Department of the University of Munich 

 — is attended by students from other states of Germany, from 

 other countries of Europe, the United States of America, Japan, 

 and elsewhere. The number of forestry students at Munich 

 last year was 121. At the Saxon Forest Academy of Tharandt, 

 the number was 84. In Scotland, in the same year, the total 

 number of forestry students at the three centres, exclusive of 

 evening students, was less than 50, and of this number the 

 majority were not specialising in forestry but merely attended 

 classes in this subject as part of their training in agriculture. 

 The actual number of students who in 1910-11 attended day 

 classes in the subject of forestry throughout the University 

 winter se.ssion at each centre was : — 



Edinburgh . . . .24 



Aberdeen . . . .16 



Glasgow .... 8 



From the foregoing comparison it might appear that the 

 existence of more than one centre for any kind of instruction 

 in forestry was superlluous. But a clear distinction ought to 

 be drawn between the elaborate provision required for the 

 efficient training of those who intend to follow the career of 

 forest-officer at home or in other parts of the empire, and the 

 comparatively modest needs of the ordinary agricultural or 

 university student who desires some instruction in forestry 



