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and so designated by him in contradistinction on the one 

 hand to a nursery, a designation borrowed from domestic 

 lite; and in contradistinction on the other hand to a 

 plantation or forest, it being a collection of trees raised 

 from seed obtained from forests or from nurserymen or 

 seedsmen of note, and reared with a view to the study of 

 their habits, their identity, and their differences : an 

 establishment such as an arboretum might be made. 

 Subsequently to the death of the founder it became State 

 property. Since then it has been greatly extended, arid 

 there are received into it, after passing satisfactorily an 

 entrance examination, sons of forest overseers, for two 

 years' study, to prepare them for employment as gardeners 

 or as forest warders ; instruction being given to them in 

 French, drawing, mathematics, land surveying, sylviculture, 

 and all details of forest service. For this instruction there 

 was allotted 20,610 francs, to cover the salaries of a 

 director, of a garde-general or warder, and of a brigadier, 

 the wages of the students, and other expenses for materials. 

 The grant for the whole of the Schools was, as has been 

 stated, 208,785 francs say 9,280. 



I cannot conceive of any circumstances in which the 

 expenditure on a National School of Forestry in Edin- 

 burgh, if regulated by reasonable economy, should 

 approximate that incurred on the maintenance of the 

 School of Forestry in Nancy, or the School of Forestry in 

 the Escurial, unless it expanded far beyond the arrangements 

 fouud sufficient in these institutions ; nor is it necessary 

 that the expenditure at first should exceed what might be 

 required to make efficient the teaching of one instructor, 

 or afterwards be increased unless the first lectureship or 

 professorship should produce results such as would make it 

 manifest that it would be pecuniarily advantageous to the 

 empire to perpetuate and extend the arrangements made. 

 And these amounts are much short of the expenditure 

 insured on the existing Royal School of Mines in London, 

 and the Royal College of Science in Dublin. 



