378 Great Britain. 



teaching the subject in a way, but outside of Cooper's 

 Hill no adequate education in forestry was obtain- 

 able in Great Britain, until 1905. 



In 1905, the forest department in Cooper's Hill 

 was transferred to Oxford, the three years' course 

 one year to be spent in the forests of Germany or 

 other countries being as before designed mainly for 

 aspirants to the Indian forest service. Now, besides 

 Oxford, some nine other institutions offer courses in 

 forestry the reason for this educational development 

 being difficult to imagine. 



The name of Sir William Schlich, a German forester, 

 and for some time the head of the Indian forest de- 

 partment now in charge of this school, is most promi- 

 nently connected with the reform movement. 



Altogether forest management and silvicultural 

 practice are still nearly unknown in England, and, 

 until within a few years, the useful idea of working 

 plans had not yet penetrated the minds of owners of 

 estates. This apathy is, no doubt, in part due to the 

 fact that the government is in the hands of the 

 nobility, who prefer to keep their "shooting ranges", 

 and do not see even a financial advantage from turning 

 them into forest as long as they can derive a rent of 

 from 10 to 40 cents per acre for shooting privileges. 



Private endeavor has been active through the two 

 arboricultural societies, the Royal Scotch, founded 

 in 1854, and the Royal English, beginning its labors 

 in 1880. The transactions of these societies in annual 

 or occasional volumes represented the current maga- 



