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along with other advantages, a sustained production 

 of wood ; and in the application of it to timber 

 forests, according as the object may be to secure 

 from these a maximum size of timber, or a maximum 

 produce of wood, or a maximum pecuniary return, 

 along with natural reproduction, sustained produc- 

 tion, and progressive improvement of the woods ; 

 and in measures to be employed in the conversion of 

 coppice wood into timber forests, of timber forests 

 into coppice wood, of mixed woods into either, and 

 of either into mixed woods ; 



' With attendance on the classes in the University for 

 the study of Natural History, of Mathematics, of 

 Engineering; or with attendance on the classes in 

 the Watt Institution and School of Arts for the study 

 of Mechanical Philosophy, and of Mathematics. 



SUMMER SESSION 



'Attendance on the classes in the University for the 

 study of Botany and Vegetable Histology ; and of 

 Practical Natural History ; and of Practical Engin- 

 eering; or attendance on classes, if open, in the 

 Watt Institution for the study of Botany, and of 

 Mechanical and Geometrical Drawing. 



AUTUMN MONTHS 



' Tours of observation, with or without the teacher, in 

 woods and forests in Britain, in France, in Germany, 

 or in the North of Europe. 



1 SECOND YEAR. 

 WINTER MONTHS 



' Instruction in regard to Forest Economy, Forest 

 Legislation, and Forest Literature in Britain ; in 

 France and in Germany, countries in advance of all 

 others in Forest Science, and in the practical applica- 

 tion of it to the management of forests ; in Russia,, 

 where arrangements are being made to introduce and 

 to carry out extensively the improved forest manage- 



