GHAPTER II. 



SCHOLASTIC ARRANGEMENTS. 



SECTION 1. CONDITIONS. 



SUPPOSING Edinburgh selected as the site of a National 

 School of Forestry, there are four practical arrangements 

 by any one of which the advantages derived from this 

 selection might be secured at a moderate expense: 1. 

 The creation of a Professorship of Forestry or Forest Science 

 in the University. 2. The creation of a Lectureship on 

 Forest Science in the Watt Institute. 3. The creation of 

 such a Lectureship in connection with the Royal Highland 

 and Agricultural Society of Scotland. 4. The creation 

 by the Science and Art Department of the Committee of 

 Council on Education of a School of Forestry in Edinburgh, 

 resembling the Royal School of Science in Dublin, and the 

 Royal School of Mines and Practical Geology in London. 



In the Normal School of Science, and Royal School of 

 Mines and Practical Geology in London, under the Science 

 and Art Department of the Committee of Council on 

 Education, instruction was given in the winter session 

 1883-84, the latest of which I have a report, in chemistry, 

 physics, mechanics, &c , mathematics, geology, and miner- 

 alogy, biology, botany, metallurgy, mining, agriculture, 

 and astronomy. In the summer course of 1884 instruction 

 was given to students in chemistry, mechanics including 

 mechanical drawing, heat, metallurgy, hygiene, and agri- 

 culture; and lectures were given to working men in 

 mineralogy, mechanics, and chemistry. 



In the Royal College of Science in Dublin, under the 

 Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council 



