230 ON FOREST SCHOOLS. 



on the Rhine, and to the pine and fir forests of France. All of 

 these are conducted by the professors or teachers. 



There may be much in such a curriculum of study as this which 

 is not deemed requisite as training for the management of British 

 woods and Colonial forests. On this point I have no design 

 to raise a controversy at this stage. The position which I take 

 up is this : The Governments of almost every country on the 

 Continent of Europe — Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and perhaps 

 Greece, being apparently the only exceptions — under the in- 

 fluence of students of forestry, have deemed it expedient to make 

 provision for the instruction of officers in their forest service in 

 all of the subjects embraced in that curriculum. The British 

 Government of India have deemed it expedient to do the 

 same, in so far as existing arrangements permit of this being 

 done, and have found their advantage in the result ; and in 

 view of this I raise the question, May not something similar, 

 but adapted to meet the requirements of our conditions, be done 

 by us 1 



In the location of the schools of forestry on the Continent, con- 

 siderable diversity exists, and the knowledge of this may be of 

 some importance in considering what may be done. 



In some countries the schools of forestry are distinct separate 

 institutions ; in others they are connected with other educational 

 arrangements, which in some, but not in all, are in part utilised, 

 and, so to speak, made subservient to the education and instruction 

 of the students of forest science. 



Of these, in regard to which information is laid on the table, 

 the schools of forestry at Stockholm in Sweden, at Evois in Fin- 

 land, at Lissino in Russia, at Nancy in France, at Vallombrosa in 

 Italy, and in the Escurial in Spain, are exclusively schools of 

 forestry. The school of forestry at St Petersburg in Russia is 

 located on the same grounds with a school of agriculture, but in 

 separate buildings. Of the schools in Germany cited, those at Neu- 

 stadt Eberswalde in Prussia, and at Miinden in Hanover, are ex- 

 clusively such. The same may be said of that at Aschaffenburg in 

 Bavaria, but it has just been raised to association with the Univer- 

 sity of Munich. And that at Giessen in Hesse-Darmstadt is incor- 

 porated or embodied as one of the faculties in the University of 

 that city. At Tharand in Saxony, and Hohenheim in Wurtem- 

 berg, the schools of forestry are connected with schools of agri- 

 culture and rural economy; at Carlsruhe, in the grand duchy of 



