232 ON FOREST SCHOOLS. 



in districts at a great distance from the locality in which the 

 school of forestry is situated. 



It seems to me that the facility for locomotion supplied by rail- 

 ways, combined with the fact that the local expense of board, etc., 

 is very nmch the same everywhere, has somewhat modified the 

 views once entertained in regard to the location of a school of 

 forestry, in, I shall not say " a cottage," but a palace, " near a 

 wood " — for in such some of the schools of forestry on the Continent 

 have been located. I may be allowed to state in this connection 

 that, on the publication of my plea for the creation of a school of 

 forestry in connection with the proposed Arboretum, one of my cor- 

 respondents, Professor Blomqvist, director of the school of forestry 

 at Evois, in Finland, wrote to me on this point, calling my attention 

 to views expressed at a convention of State foresters, etc., at Frei- 

 burg, when it was said to be unanimously agreed that a university 

 was the proper place for the study of forest science. 



It is in connection with the consideration of the requirements 

 of our Colonies that I have moved in this matter ; I look upon 

 India as a dependency like in some of its requirements to a colony ; 

 and I should be glad if access to a highly remunerative career were 

 opened up to working foresters in the forest service of that 

 country, believing that what thus brought gain to them woidd 

 bring corresponding gain to the countries obtaining their services. 

 But it is natural that the national Arboricultural Society shoidd 

 look primarily to our national requirements. And anticipating as 

 I do greater difficulties in securing from the first a body of stu- 

 dents, than in securing the establishment of a school of forestry 

 in the country, I would submit for considei-ation the expediency 

 of the association selecting for discussion at the meeting of the 

 Society in 1878, the following questions relating to points on 

 which information is greatly desiderated and earnestly solicited : 



1. What course of study at a school of forestry woidd best meet 

 the requirements of young foresters intending to practise forestry 

 in Scotland 1 ? 



2. By what measures can students be procured to attend a 

 school of forestiy in Scotland for the prosecution of such studies 1 



3. In what way could students, at a school of forestiy in Scot 

 land, most efficiently spend the vacation in acquiring information 

 from observations to be made by them in woods, plantations, and 

 forests in Scotland 1 



