2 26 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARliORICUI.TURAL SOCIETY. 



at Oxford was subject to reconsideration within tliree years. 

 A Committee was appointed by the Secretary of State in 

 1908, and on its recommendations he arrived at certain 

 decisions, which were communicated to the University on the 

 2nd February 191 1. 



These decisions were embodied in letters of the same date 

 addressed to the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh 

 (see vol. x.xiv., p. 212). 



Sir VV. Schlich's service should have terminated on the 

 28th February 1910, under the age limit fixed by the English 

 Civil Service rules, but at the request of the Secretary of State 

 he continued in office, until a decision as to the future training 

 of the probationers had been arrived at. Accordingly, he 

 retired from the Government service on the ist August 191 r, 

 and from the same date Mr A. M. Caccia, M.V.O., an officer 

 of the India Forest Service, was appointed director of Indian 

 Forest Studies. 



In the meantime a change had taken place at Oxford. 

 While the School of Forestry commenced with the training 

 of Indian probationers, there were, in the spring of 191 r, thirty- 

 five forest students who were not probationers for India. The 

 delegates for Instruction in Forestry, after due consideration, 

 resolved that every efi"ort should be made to continue the 

 .School of Forestry at Oxford for the training of students of 

 forestry including probationers for India ; that it would be 

 desirable to appoint a university professor of forestry, and 

 necessary to make arrangements for the teaching and super- 

 vision of students after ist .August 191 1, and that Council be 

 informed of these resolutions. In consetpience of this com- 

 munication, and as no foundation for a jjrofessorship of forestry 

 existed, Sir \V. Schlich was appointed reader in forestry for 

 a period of three years from the ist August 1911, and by decree 

 of Convocation he was given the status of professor of forestry 

 as long as he holds the readership. He thus remains secretary 

 to the Delegates for Instruction in Forestry. 



After discussion with .Mr ('accia, it was arranged that he 

 and the professor of forestry should divide the instruction in 

 forestry between themselves until midsummer, 1913. /Vfter 

 that date the University will have to make provision for 

 carrying on the School of Forestry without any assistance 

 from the Secretary of State for India. It is hoped that by 



