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and from this I conclude, that no difficulty need be 

 anticipated in procuring teachers, if only the necessary 

 arrangements for the teaching were made/ 



This speaks of the past, not of the present ; but as I felt 

 then, many, I doubt not, will feel now, or as soon as 

 measures may be matured for the opening of the School, 

 I anticipate a plethora, and not a lack of candidates. 



In order to the projection of a satisfactory programme 

 of study, it is necessary to know something of the attain- 

 ments and other qualifications of the teacher or teachers 

 whose services can be obtained. 



But beyond this there are to be taken into account the 

 number and capabilities of the students, the period over 

 which the curriculum is to extend, and ihe number of 

 hours which the students can daily spend in class studies. 



In lack of all these data it is impossible to speak with 

 the precision which might otherwise have been practicable : 

 they are important, but they are as yet unknown qualities. 



With these unknown, I may state that in the Plea for 

 the establishment of a School of Forestry in connection 

 with the Arboretum in Edinburgh, which I issued in 1877, 

 I submitted the following, as what I deemed at that time 

 practicable and suitable; mentioning that 1 still deem 

 them so. 



'Since my return to Europe, some ten years ago, from 

 the Cape of Good Hope, where I held the appointments 

 of Colonial Botanist and Professor of Botany in the South 

 African College, I have, with the exception of a brief 

 period, been in constant communication, personal and 

 epistolary, with professors and students of forest science, 

 and officials entrusted with the management or admini- 

 stration of forests in Britain, on the Continent of Europe, 

 in the United States of America, in the British Colonies, 

 and in India, having in the course of that time visited the 

 United States a second time, and travelled extensively in 

 France, Bavaria, Austria, Russia, Finland, Prussia, and 



