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" How far the accommodation may be met by existing build- 

 ings I cannot say. The Assistant Director would be in im- 

 mediate charge of the training of woodmen, assisted by the Head 

 Forester. Whether quarters for the woodmen under instruction 

 would be required depends on the location of the establishment. 

 Laboratory research on subjects such as botany and 

 entomology should be done in connection with existing teaching 

 centres." 



Sir S. Eardley-Wilmot also contributes a memorandum on the 

 organisation and cost of a Demonstration Area, in the course of 

 which he says : — 



" I. It is of course admitted that demonstration, education and 

 research are merely the means to an end, that of the develop- 

 ment .of forestry as a national industry : they form a basis for 

 the systematic establishment of State ' Experimental Forests ' ; 

 for State-aided afforestation by public bodies ; and, it is hoped 

 ultimately with the aid of legislation, for the formation of 

 commercial forests by private individuals. Equally, of course, 

 it is not desirable that other efforts towards the final objects in 

 view should be postponed until arrangements for demonstration, 

 education and research are completed ; but it seems essential 

 that Government should have, as soon as possible, a suitable 

 centre where the best forestry methods should be displayed, 

 where theories learnt in the schools may be studied in the 

 field, and where opportunity would be afforded for the 

 prosecution of practical enquiries into any special branch of 

 forestry. 



" 2. The organisation of an area which would efficiently serve 

 the above purposes must necessarily be costly if the scheme is 

 to be effective, and prove that Government is really desirous of 

 reviving industrial forestry in the United Kingdom ; but to 

 make such an area the sole centre for research and education 

 would be as inadvisable as it would be impossible ; for the 

 success of both education and research depends on the in- 

 dividual, and the individual will continue to resort to those 

 localities where the exercise of his talents will have the fullest 

 results. Yet the officers of the Demonstration Area should be 

 provided with suitable facilities to carry on investigations and 

 thereby continue to qualify themselves for their educational 

 duties ; and more particularly for such investigations as 

 necessitate work in those forests which it is hoped may be 



