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prosecuted in connection with facilities for prosecuting 

 without interruption these and higher studies, with some 

 time spent annually in observing, and, if possible, in practis- 

 ing forestal operations under properly qualified teachers of 

 practical forestry. And I have stated in the preceding 

 chapter, on an appropriate site for a British National 

 School of Forestry [ante. pp. 174-7], how this might be done 

 if Edinburgh were made choice of for the site of such a 

 school. 



Having made this statement, I feel free to advance, 

 and state that I have never known of a forest official in 

 the south of Germany advocate a return to the old model 

 in so far as tbis was essentially a school organised in 

 connection with a forest, and I have never known such a 

 location for a School of Forestry advocated in Germany or 

 out of Germany by any one known to me to be acquainted 

 with the details of instruction in different existing Schools 

 of Forestry, who had not himself been educated at a School 

 of Forestry so located. 1 do not call in question the fact 

 that such may have had far better opportunities of 

 forming a satisfactory opinion on the subject from experi- 

 ence than I have from limited personal observation and 

 hearsay; and I have mentioned the fact cited in the full 

 knowledge that it may tell both ways. 



In more than one case on visiting a School of Forestry, I 

 have looked in vain for a forest, or even for an Arboretum, 

 such as that in Edinburgh is becoming, and yet may 

 become ; and even where a removal of location has been 

 made to the site now occupied by a school adjacent to a 

 forest, it has never been from a University town to an 

 exclusively forest district, but the reverse, with perhaps 

 an exception which will be mentioned. 



In Denmark, the School of Forestry is conectedn with 

 the School of Agriculture and Rural Economy in 

 Copenhagen, In Sweden, the principal School of Forestry 

 is in Stockholm, and the practical training is effected at a 

 distance. In Finland, the School of Forestry is at Evois, 



