i 2 Science and Teaching of Porestry. 



In addition to your Botanic Garden, Meteorological Instruments and 

 excellent Laboratories and Museum, you have within a day's easy travelling 

 the best-managed and most instructive State forest in England. Here in 

 addition to plantations of Scotch and other firs and of beech, we have 

 forests of oak, that M. Boppe on his late visit expressly pointed out as 

 affording a first-rate study in the management of such trees. It has 

 occurred to me that as some of you sometimes arrange to devote an entire 

 fortnight to the study of cheese making in the Cheddar district, so arrange- 

 ments might be made for forest students to reside in the Forest of Dean 

 during some of the busier times of the year. I suppose, moreover, that 

 facilities might be obtained for the study of ordinary arboricultural pro- 

 cesses nearer home in Lord Bathurst's beautiful woods. 



With these few practical suggestions as to the teaching of forestry here, 

 I must conclude, acknowledging my indebtedness to the writings of my 

 friends Dr. Cleghorn and Colonel Pearson, and still more to you for the 

 attentive hearing you have accorded me. 



WILLIAM RIDER AND SON, PRINTERS, LONDON. 



