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made known tbat this was the case : that there was an 

 Arboretum, about 30 acres in extent, adjoining the Botanic 

 Gardens and Experimental Gardens, in extent some 20 

 acres more, with a view described " as one of the most 

 magnificent views of Edinburgh which could be obtained," 

 and " as one of the finest in Europe, including as it did 

 the northern portion gf the city, with its spires and domes, 

 and the outstanding eminences of the Castle, Calton Hill, 

 Salisbury Crags, and Arthur's Seat," and that related 

 studies could be carried on under such men as Sir 

 Wyville Thomson, and Professors Balfour, Kelland, Tait, 

 Jenkin, Wilson, Geikie, Hodgson, Stuart Tytler, and 

 Alexander Crum Brown, with such assistants as they have, 

 and such men as are gathered around Dr Stevenson 

 Macadam and Mr Lees in the Watt Institution, there will 

 be no lack of candidates for the work. 



' I consider that there must be many of the officers of 

 the Forest Service in India well fitted, by previous training 

 and experience, for conducting such a course of study as 1 

 have proposed Failing this, there might be found, by 

 correspondence with students of forestry on the Continent, 

 able men who might be willing to master the English 

 language and give lectures on some or all of the subjects 

 I have enumerated. 



4 1 have, for some years, myself been engaged in the 

 compilation of information on subjects connected with 

 Economic Botany, with a view to this being, if not previously 

 printed, or otherwise used, deposited in manuscript in the 

 Public Library, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, for con- 

 sultation by scientific and practical men seeking to develope 

 the vegetable resources and the agricultural capabilities of 

 that colony ; and I have ready, compiled and translated, 

 all the material requisite for such courses of lectures on 

 Forest Science as I have spoken of. If other duties 

 permitted, I should esteem it an honour, as any man 

 might do, to be entrusted with an opportunity of testing 

 the practicability of establishing a British School of 

 Forestry in connection with the proposed Arboretum ; 



