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25. Forestry at the University of Oxford. 



We extract the following from the Report of the Delegates 

 for Instruction in Forestry for the year 191 1 : — 



The number of students on the books of the Delegacy for 

 Instruction in Forestry during the year 191 1 was as follows : — 



Total 67 63 43 



The students during Michaelmas term may be classified as 

 follows : — 



In 1911. In 1910. 

 Probationers for the Indian Forest Service 15 35 



Other Students . . . .28 35 



Total . -43 70 



> The decrease in the total number of students is chiefly due 

 to the reduction in the number of probationers for India, from 

 35 to 15, and partly to the effect which the reduction had on 

 the number of other students. 



Of the ten students who joined in October 191 1, there are : — 



Probationers for the Indian Forest Service . 3 



Other Students . . . . .7 



Total . .10 



The Secretary of State for India appointed five probationers, 

 but only three came to Oxford, the other two having been 

 permitted to study at Cambridge. After another year or two, 

 the number of probationers for India is likely to be raised 

 again to the normal number of ten a year. 



The Indian School of Forestry was transferred from Coopers 

 Hill to Oxford in October 1905, and it has educated up to date 

 the probationers for the Indian Forest Service. The Secretary 

 of State for India, however, had intimated to the University, 

 on the 17th March 1905, that the training of the probationers 



