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but so far as appears, it might be done if arrangements 

 were made for the study of forestry in connection with 

 the Watt Institute, the Highland and Agricultural Society 

 of Scotland, or in connection with the Museum of Science 

 and Art in Edinburgh, on terms similar to those of the 

 Royal School of Mines and Practical Geology in London, 

 and the Royal College of Science in Dublin, all of which 

 admit of expansion and curtailment, and changes being 

 made more easily than could de done with a professorship 

 in the University, 



SECTION 3. EXPENSE. 



The expenditure which might be entailed, by arrange- 

 ments such as had been under consideration, should 

 not, even with the expenditure already incurred on the 

 annual maintenance of the Museum, make the total 

 expenditure of the Department in Edinburgh equal to the 

 expenditure on the Normal School of Science, and Royal 

 School of Mines, in London ; or approximate by thousands 

 of pounds the expenditure on the Royal College of 

 Science, and the Museum of Science and Art, in 

 Dublin, Nor would it involve an expenditure on a 

 National School of Forestry out of keeping with what is 

 spent on such institutions elsewhere. 



There is some difficulty in stating what may be con- 

 sidered the total expense incurred in the maintenance of 

 almost any of the Schools of Forestry on the Continent : 

 from this circumstance among others in the published 

 accounts no mention is made of what might be considered 

 the equivalent of rent for the premises in which the school 

 is located, and of the grounds connected with these 

 whether a simple arboretum, or an extensive forest as the 

 case may be. I know not an exception. The premises 

 and grounds, sometimes a mansion, sometimes a palace, 

 with corresponding appointments, is granted by the 

 Government free of reckoning. The rent of such premises, 



