4<5 REVIVAL OF FORESTRY 



research work in forestry. Grants were also made 

 in order to improve or increase the accommodation 

 existing at the various universities and colleges for 

 forestry tuition and research, both of which were, 

 generally speaking, the most inadequate in Europe 

 before this aid was given, and precluded all idea of 

 an advance on the correct lines. The salaries of 

 additional lecturers at several centres were also 

 defrayed. 



The matter of acquiring Demonstration Forest 

 Areas in the country, to be utilised as advanced 

 training and research centres, and to afford object 

 lessons in the practical illustration of scientific 

 economic forestry in all its branches, was also dealt 

 with. In England the Crown gave permission for 

 the Forest of Dean to be utilised for this purpose, 

 and the Commissioners provided the funds for 

 building a Research Institute Building within the 

 Forest. The erection of this building had been com- 

 menced before, and was completed during the war. 



Owing to difficulties experienced in settling upon 

 a site, a Demonstration Area in Scotland had not been 

 acquired by 1914. 



The Commissioners also gave small grants for the 

 provision of small forest gardens to be established 

 near the university or collegiate centres for instruc- 

 tion in the more elementary portions of practical 

 forestry and in which experiments could be made 

 with crops of different species of trees. 



Having thus made a commencement in clearing 

 away the most glaring anomalies and deficiencies 

 in the situation, the Commissioners turned their 



