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of existing organisations, such as the Royal Highland and 

 Agricultural Society of Scotland, or the Scottish Arbori- 

 cultural Society, this would give an opportunity of seeing, 

 and of showing, what can be done with even limited means; 

 and by inference, what might be done with greater or 

 better means at command ; and it would afford oppor- 

 tunities for experimenting, and so preparing for the 

 perfecting of a scheme, which, placed on a more satisfactory 

 basis, might achieve all that is desired. It is possible 

 that the insecurity in regard to continuance attaching to 

 such arrangements, together with the absence of prestige, 

 might have a prejudicial effect on the supply both of 

 teachers and of students ; but even should it prove only a 

 temporary arrangement, it might, in the absence of some- 

 thing more commanding in promise and in effect, do much 

 good. 



SECTION 2. CURRICULUM OF STUDY. 



I do not happen to know of a more eligible site for a 

 British National School of Forestry than Edinburgh 

 would be ; and in proceeding to bring under consideration 

 what I consider suitable curriculum of study for adoption, 

 I assume hypothetically that others will feel with me 

 that such is the case. 



This assumed, it is requisite to the satisfactory pro- 

 jection of a programme of instruction to know something 

 of the object to be kept in view ; of the teachers to be 

 employed their number and their qualifications; and of the 

 students who are to study there their capabilities and 

 the time they can give to their studies. 



If the sole object aimed at be to impart the instruction 

 necessary for the satisfactory management of woods and 

 plantations in Britain, or for the satisfactory management of 

 forests and plantations in India, or in one or another, or 

 more in any or all of our colonies, the curriculum might 

 properly be determined by the circumstance of which 



