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fore agreed to report the evidence already taken to the 

 House, and to recommend that a Committee on the same 

 subject should be appointed in the next session of Parlia- 

 ment." And this was done ; but in like circumstances, 

 and with like result. Meanwhile, at the meeting of 

 the British Association for the advancement of science 

 held in Aberdeen in the autumn of the year, the general 

 Committee of that body adopted a resolution that Sir A. 

 Taylor, Professor Bayley Balfour, Dr. Croumbie Brown, 

 Dr. Cleghorn, and Sir John Lubbock, be a Committee for 

 the purpose of considering whether the condition of our 

 forests and woodlands might not be improved by the 

 establishment of a forest school. 



I was called to give evidence before the Committee of 

 the House of Commons appointed last summer to consider 

 this matter. In reply to a query then put to me 

 I stated, amongst other things, that I could not name any 

 School of Forestry which I could propose as a model for a 

 School of Forestry which would meet the wants of 

 Britain, but that the School of Forest Engineers in Spain 

 was one of a type which might be followed with advan- 

 tage in the organisation of a British National School of 

 Forestry if it should be determined to establish one in 

 Edinburgh, which offered special facilities for the establish- 

 ment of such a School. 



The following compilation has been made to illustrate 

 what is implied in the opinions which I then expressed. 



I adhere to these opinions, but I consider that valuable 

 suggestions which might be utilised in the organisation of 

 a British National School of Forestry may be derived 

 from a knowledge of what arrangements exist in other 

 Schools of Forestry on the Continent of Europe than 



