BRITISH NATIONAL SCHOOL OF FORESTRY. 16$ 



dent of any such organised school system, and is designed 

 to meet the requirements of a state of things considerably 

 different from that which exists in these other lands; and 

 this is a state of things very similar to what I have seen 

 at the Cape of Good Hope, and what 1 have reason to 

 believe to be existant in others of our Colonies. 



It is in view of this that I cited it, not as a model, 

 or as a type to which it is expedient that a National 

 School of Forestry in Britain should be conformed ; but as 

 illustrative of the category of schools of forestry, which 

 are desireable amongst the English speaking nations, and 

 Colonies in which modern forest science and appliances 

 might, in accordance with national school organisations, be 

 adapted to meet national requirements. This has been 

 done efficiently in Spain ; and I am persuaded that 

 mutatis mutandis it might be done in Britain, and 

 other lands similarly conditioned. Under this impression 

 I proceed to discuss some of the facilities presented in our 

 country for the execution of such an enterprise ; bringing 

 under consideration thoss which relate to an appropriate 

 site ; those which relate to scholastic arrangements adapted 

 to the site recommended including conditions, curri- 

 culum of study, and expense and those which relate to 

 the creation of forest literature, similar to the modern 

 forest literature of the Continent. 



