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on Education, instruction was given in the same session, 

 (1883-84), to students of the first year in pure mathematics, 

 elementary mechanics, descriptive geometry with lessons 

 in geometrical drawing, theoretical chemistry, and experi- 

 mental physics. To students of the second year instruction 

 was given in pure mathematics, general mechanics, 

 mechanical drawing, practical physics, practical chemistry, 

 biology, and mineralogy. To students of the third year 

 instruction was given in mechanism and thermo-dynamics, 

 applied mechanics and hydro-dynamics, engineering, 

 drawing, surveying, geology, paleontology, mining, metal- 

 lurgy, applied chemistry, assaying and analytical chemistry ; 

 and there were special courses of instruction given in 

 botany and practical botany, and in zoology and practical 

 zoology. 



The total number of individuals who attended the 

 stated lectures was eighty, of whom twenty-nine were 

 associates, students prosecuting the whole three years' 

 course with a view of obtaining the diploma of associate. 

 The corresponding numbers in the preceding year were 

 fifty-nine and twenty-one respectively. 



While England and Ireland have such institutions under 

 the Science and Art Department of the Committee of 

 Council on Education, Scotland has none. But it has 

 under that depaitment of the Government exceptional 

 facilities for the organisation of a School of Forestry on 

 the lines I have suggested. In the Museum of Science 

 and Art, which is under their direction, there is, as has 

 been intimated, a valuable collection of forest products, 

 enriched by a contribution of well-nigh 3000 articles 

 obtained from the Forestry Exhibition, enriched also with 

 those placed at the disposal of the Committee appointed by 

 the Conference held at the close of that Exhibition, and 

 according to credible report, to be further enriched with 

 the copious and valuable collection of the Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society, making it probably the most 

 comprehensive and extensive collection of such articles 

 in Britain, if not ip Europe or in the world; and in 



