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the same Museum are well-selected illustrations of ento- 

 mology and other departments of zoology, of mineralogy 

 and geology, &c. And adjacent to the Museum is the Watt 

 Institute, receiving grants from the Department, reported 

 in 1885, amounting to 9 179, where it may be assumed 

 accommodation for classes might be obtained, and where, 

 as in the University, contiguous to the Museum, accessory 

 studies might be pursued. 



By the nearest possible approximation to unanimity, 

 the Committee appointed at a meeting held in the 

 International Forestry Exhibition in Edinburgh to con- 

 sider the means necessary to the establishment of a School 

 of Forestry in that city, have advocated in preference to 

 the organization of classes for the study of Forestry in 

 Edinburgh by the Science and Art Department of the 

 Committee of Council on Education, the establishment of 

 a Professorship of Forestry in the University.* 



Amongst other advantages of such an arrangement, the 

 expense subject to the disadvantage of not having a 

 number of teachers of equal rank in many departments of 

 forest science and of forest economy which it is expedient 

 should be comprised in the curriculum of study, would 

 be very much less; and this being determined there 

 would be little probability of its being subsequently 

 increased, unless the advantage of this should become 

 manifest. There would be secured for the study, and for 

 successful students, a prestige which might operate 

 favourably both in securing students able to meet the 

 expense of University instruction, and in securing the 

 services of teachers of higher grade than might be found 

 willing to undertake the work in connection with the 

 more extensive arrangements which have been under 



The following are the names of the members of that Committee : The Most Hon. 

 The Marquis of Lothian, K.T., President ; The Right Hon. Thomas Clark, Lord Provost 

 of Edinburgh ; Sir William Muir, K.C.S I., Principal of the University of Edinburgh ; 

 Alexander Dickson, Esq. of Hartree, M.D., Professor of Botany, Edinburgh ; Colonel 

 Murdoch Smith, R.E., Director of Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art ; Sir Alexander 

 Christison, Bart., M.D. ; Robert Hutchison, Esq. of Carlowrie : P. Neill Fraser, Esq. ; 

 J. Croumbie Brown, LL.D. ; Hugh Cleghorn, Esq. of Stravithie. .M,l>. : Malcolm Dunn 

 Esq. ; W. A. Belfrage, Esq., C.E. Colonel Dods, Convener, 



