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Britain, to increase amenity, covert, and shelter ; and 

 instruction in the injurious effects of animals, birds, 

 insects, and various diseases on trees ; 

 ( With attendance on the classes in the University for 

 the study of Geology, of Agriculture, and, if it be 

 desired, any of the following : for the study of 

 Political Economy, of Conveyancing, or of Bandaging 

 and Surgical Appliances ; or with attendance on the 

 classes in the Watt Institution for the study of 

 Animal Physiology, of German, or of French. 



' In the curriculum which I have sketched, I have had 

 regard to all that is required in Continental Forest 

 Schools, and only to what is required in some, if not in 

 all, of these institutions, in the study of what is included 

 under the designation of Forest Science. I have also had 

 regard only to the teaching power of the University of 

 Edinburgh, and of the Watt Institution and School of 

 Arts, as existing provision for the teaching of the 

 classes specified. 



1 In many of the institutions referred to, the provision 

 for practical training in woods and forests is much more 

 ample than is at present at command in Britain; but 

 there is here a corresponding reduction in the time allotted 

 to the curriculum ; and this is so arranged that it may be 

 entered upon at the commencement of any one of the 

 sessions. 



' It is contemplated that the studies should be conducted 

 by the use of text-books, by lectures, by oral examina- 

 tions at which the students should be encouraged to ask 

 questions of the teacher, by written exercises of various 

 kinds, and by formal discussions by the students under 

 the presidency of the teacher. 



'And it is contemplated that the class should meet for 

 an hour five days a week, at a time which would not 

 interfere with the classes attended at the University, or 

 in the Watt Institution.' 



In the enumeration of classes in the University and 



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