PART II. 



PRACTICABLE ARRANGEMENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH 



THOSE IN THE SCHOOL OF FOREST ENGINEERS IN SPAIN, 



SUITABLE FOR A BRITISH NATIONAL SCHOOL OF 



FORESTRY. 



IN the session of the British Parliament in 1886, a Select 

 Committee of the House of Commons was appointed to 

 consider whether, by the establishment of a School of 

 Forestry, or otherwise, our woodlands could be rendered 

 more productive. Before this I was called to give evidence 

 in regard to the constitution of Schools of Forestry; when I 

 stated, amongst other things, in reply to successive queries, 

 in substance that there was no one School of Forestry 

 on the Continent of Europe which I could propose as a 

 model for a British National School of Forestry, if such 

 should be organised ; nor one which I could recommend as 

 a type ; but that I considered the School of Forest 

 Engineers in Spain one organised after a type which it 

 might be advantageous to follow, in organising any such 

 School in Britain for the training of officials to administer 

 and manage extensive forests in our colonial possessions, 

 and other similarly conditioned countries. 



One difference which may be remarked in the School of 

 Forest Engineers in the Escurial, and others in Central 

 and Northern Europe, is that while these generally are in 

 accordance with a system of graded schools there existing 

 and are adapted to a forestal condition of the country, 

 similar, if not identical, in all of them ; that in 

 the Escurial is, to a considerable extent, indepen- 



