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search work in forestry. This work, to which I have 

 already briefly alluded, is of such a manifold nature 

 that it is impossible to go into the matter here. I 

 may say, however, that research is very badly 

 needed if British forestry is to one day rank as 

 second to none in Europe. And we all confidently 

 expect it to take this place. 



In the past and at the present time the educational 

 forestry centres have been indebted for the oppor- 

 tunities of undertaking these courses of practical 

 training to the kindness of private proprietors 

 throughout the country. It is impossible to speak 

 with too great warmth on the value of the assistance 

 thus accorded, or of the assistance and cordiality 

 with which they and their agents and foresters have 

 invariably given to and shown the students. It is 

 another direction in which the nation is indebted 

 to owners of woods, for many of the students so 

 trained have gone out to serve in the Government 

 forest services of the Empire, in India and the 

 Colonies. 



Even with the formation of the necessary demon- 

 stration areas, the training centres for some period 

 to come will still require their students to visit 

 areas of privately owned woods. This fact provides 

 another reason, to those given in a subsequent 

 article, for the advisability of aiding proprietors to 

 reafforest the areas on their estates felled during 

 the war. 



