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Belgium, to obtain and to verify information otherwise 

 obtained in regard to forest economy and forest science. 

 And I submit for your consideration the opinion that, with 

 the acquisition of this Arboretum, and with the existing 

 arrangements for study in the University of Edinburgh, 

 and in the Watt Institution and School of Arts, there are 

 required only facilities for the study of what is known on 

 the Continent as Forest Science to enable these Institu- 

 tions conjointly, or either of them with the help of the 

 other, to take a place amongst the most completely 

 equipped Schools of Forestry in Europe, and to undertake 

 the training of foresters for the discharge of such duties 

 as are now required of them in India, in our Colonies, and 

 at home. 



' I have before me the Programme de I'enseignement h 

 JU Ecole Forestiere, at Nancy, and the official Report of the 

 prescribed studies in the Central-forsthhr-Anstalt, at 

 Aschaffenburg, and I am more or less acquainted generally 

 with the courses of study followed at most of the other 

 Schools of Forestry in Europe ; and I consider that some 

 such course of study as the following would be equivalent 

 for the purposes of our countrymen to that followed in 

 any one of these valuable institutions, with the advantage 

 of not requiring the acquisition of a foreign language, 

 which few of our foresters and sons of foresters have 

 facilities for effecting, or at least of effecting to such an 

 extent as to enable them to understand instructions as 

 thoroughly as they would instructions given in their own 

 tongue : 



' FIRST YEAR. 

 ' WINTER SESSION 



' Instruction to be given in the structure and physiology 

 of Trees and Shrubs ; in the geographical distribution 

 of Forests ; in the treatment of Forests by Cartage, 

 by Jardinayr., by a tire et mVtf, and bytes Compart ements, 

 or the Fachwerk*. Method?, of Germany ; in the applica- 

 tion of this to coppice wood, with a view to securing, 



