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one of these objects was to be the object aimed at ; but 

 as at comparatively little additional expenditure of 

 teaching power and of money, there could be imparted 

 the instruction which is required in common by all of 

 these, together with much beside, which might be advan- 

 tageous, in every way, this is what is desirable in a 

 British National School of Forestry, and what alone 

 would render any School worthy of such a name. 



With this point settled, there arises the question of the 

 number and qualification of the teachers to be employed, 

 and the question, Where may qualified teachers of forestry 

 and forest science be looked for with some hope of their 

 being found ? 



There are three qualifications which I deemed desirable, 

 if not requisite, in teachers in a School of Forestry 

 the necessary knowledge ; power of communicating to 

 others the knowledge which it is desired they should 

 impart ; and aptitude for teaching. It may be necessary 

 in the commeucement of a School of Forestry to abandon 

 the hope of securing in a teacher or teachers, otherwise 

 eligible, one or more of these qualifications, whether it be 

 determined to organise a school in a fully equipped con- 

 dition, or one in what may be called an embryotic form. 

 Which should be sacrificed may depend on circumstances 

 too varied to be specified. 



Subject to this caveat I may mention that in the Plea 

 for the orgaanisation of of a School of Forestry in connec- 

 tion with the Arboretum in Edinburgh, issued by me in 

 1877, I stated : 



' The laying out of such grounds can be executed only by a 

 professional forester. But thereafter it may be open to 

 question whether the curatorship of them should be 

 entrusted to a practical or to a scientific officer, and if the 

 latter should be resolved on, there is provision made for 

 the experiment of introducing the study of forest science 

 at little additional expense. 



' I presume if this were done, and if it were extensively 



