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Forestry. ID a circular which they issued under date of 

 28th January, 1885, the Committee intimated that they 

 felt difficulty in suggesting a definite scheme for the 

 organisation of the School until they had some knowledge 

 of the amount of funds which might be placed at their 

 disposal ; but that they contemplated the establishment 

 of a Professorship of Forest Science for the instruction of 

 students in all that pertains to practical and to scientific 

 forestry, including the physiology and pathology of trees, 

 the climatic and other effects produced by forests, the 

 different methods of forest management in use in this 

 and other lauds, the economic uses to which forest products 

 have been, or may be applied, and forest engineering 

 and forest administration generally : the instruction being 

 communicated by lectures, examinations, written and oral, 

 excursions, &c. And should their funds permit, that the large 

 collection of forest implements, produce, and specimens of 

 various kinds illustrative of forest science and forest 

 economy, with such additions as from time to time might 

 be available, should be placed in a permanent museum in 

 connection with the contemplated School of Forestry ; for 

 the accomplishment of all of which they considered 10,000 

 would be requisite. 



In the end of 1885 it was found that a mercantile 

 establishment, in which free storage had been generously 

 given for the large collection of articles placed at their 

 disposal, required the premises in which these were stored. 

 In these circumstances the Committee deemed it expedient 

 to make over the whole to the Museum of Science and Art, 

 in which, along with others which have been procured, they 

 may be permanently exhibited, so soon as the necessary 

 accommodation for this can be provided ; and the sub- 

 scriptions placed at their disposal, amounting only to 660, 

 they resolved to advocate the establishment of a 

 Professorship of Forestry in the University, 



Should their original design be carried out by any, in 

 so far as it related to study and instruction, whether this 

 were done by private enterprise or by some one or other 



