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aii enormous expenditure for such poor results. Suppose 

 there is an annual average of fifteen pupils being trained 

 at Nancy for the Indian forest service. This would give a 

 total cost of 3000 per annum. Such a large sum properly 

 expended in training forest students in a Forest Depart- 

 ment in connection with any of our Universities would 

 train fifty students in place of fifteen, and make much 

 superior men of them for the duties they are called on to 

 perform in the management of our home, colonial, and 

 Indian forests. The special training for India, or any 

 colony, should be taught in that country. The science and 

 technics of forestry can be better and more economically 

 taught in Britain than anywhere else, and the practical 

 training specially necessary for any particular country 

 cannot be so well taught anywhere as on the spot where 

 it has to be put into practice.' 



Mr W. G. Pedder, revenue secretary, India Office, in 

 giving evidence before a Select Committee of the House 

 of Commons in July 1885, it is reported in a subsequent 

 issue of that periodical, September 1885, stated, in regard 

 to candidates for employment in the Forest Department 

 in India : ' It was found that the young men sent to 

 France were not sufficiently well acquainted with the 

 French language to acquire knowledge through that 

 medium. A change has consequently been made. The 

 young officers selected were sent to undergo a course at 

 the Royal Engineering College at West Hill, where they 

 were instructed in the ordinary engineering education, 

 and in addition were taught Forestry, and Botany, and 

 Forest Law, and Jurisprudence. . . . No application 

 had been received from other than the Indian Depart- 

 ment ; but no doubt other students would be received, 

 who would pay the fees of 180 a year, including every- 

 thing excepting pocket-money.' 



At much less expense than this, then, might be provided 

 in Edinburgh, education, instruction, and training, equal 

 to what has hitherto been given to candidates for appoint* 



