BRITISH NATIONAL SCHOOL OF FORESTRY. lH 



In giving evidence before the Select Committee of the 

 House of Commons, I stated in reply to a query put that 

 Edinburgh affords special advantages, and such as are 

 unequalled elsewhere, for the site of a National School of 

 Forestry. 



Among the more manifest advantages of Edinburgh as 

 a site for a National School of Forestry may be mentioned 

 the following: Adjacent to the city is an Arboretum pur- 

 chased by the inhabitants at an expense, it is said, of 

 20,000, and presented to the nation in the hope that it 

 might be utilized for the study of forestry. Conterminous 

 with this, and connected with it, there is a large well- 

 equipped and well-stocked Botanic Garden, supported by 

 the nation. In this there is a large comprehensive 

 museum of all kinds of vegetable products. 



In the Museum of Science and Art, maintained by the 

 Committee of Council on Education, in close proximity to 

 the University buildings, there is already a large and 

 valuable collection of woods and other forest products, and 

 well-selected specimens of illustrations of mineralogy and 

 geology, of entomology, ornithology, and mazology ; and 

 in the report of this Museum for 1884 it is stated : 

 'Considerable additions have accrued to the forestry 

 section of the Museum from the International Forestry 

 Exhibition which was held in the city during the last year. 

 The whole of the Johore collection of forest products have 

 been presented by His Highness the Maharajah of Johore, 

 G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., &c. A large portion of the extensive 

 Indian collections has been received from Her Majesty's 

 Minister of State for India, and an extensive selection of 

 the products of British Guiana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, 

 and St. Vincent, has been given by the Commissioner in 

 charge, the Hon. William Russel. From the Japanese 

 Commissioners to the International Health Exhibition, 

 Messrs Tegima and Nagai, interesting collections of 

 educational objects and food products have also been 

 received.' Nearly three thousand articles were thus added 

 to the Museum. Corresponding collections of articles from 



