1 8 Studies in Forestry [CHAP. i. 



527. You were taught yourself at Cirencester College, were you not ? 

 Yes. (Compare 509.) 



528. And after then where did you go? I went into King's College 

 in London for twelve months, and then up to Edinburgh, and took the 

 Highland Agricultural Society's Diploma; that was about the year 1868. 



529. So that you have had yourself as good an education in forestry as 

 is possible in Great Britain ? There was no teaching in forestry in my time. 



530. But you have had a good insight into forestry ? / have had an 

 insight into forestry. 



541. Do you think it would have been an advantage to yourself if you 

 had had an opportunity of being trained in some regular school, or do you 

 think you have been able to acquire a practical knowledge? I have 

 been fortunately situated with regard to that. I have had a very long 

 and happy experience with regard to forestry ; but others who might 

 follow in my steps might not have the same opportunities of instruction, 

 and others ought to have the opportunity of hearing lectures upon the 

 matter. 



Nothing that is said above is meant, malo grato, to depre- 

 ciate the instruction given in Forestry at these Agricultural 

 Colleges. But the evidence tendered by one of the instruc- 

 tors himself is plain and to the point, as it shows most 

 conclusively that the instructors in Forestry have not them- 

 selves had good opportunities of qualifying for their special 

 task, so far as it relates to Forestry conducted on sound 

 scientific and economic principles, i. e. to Sylviculture as 

 contrasted with Arboriculture. 



Perhaps the only place, with the exception of Cooper's 

 Hill, at which really properly qualified instruction in Forestry 

 is being given at the present moment is the Durham College 

 of Science at Newcastle. But as the lectures on Forestry 

 there only form a minor portion of the course of professorial 

 tuition dealing principally with Agriculture, they can hardly 

 be expected to be adequate to the proper qualification of 

 youths for the management of our existing woodlands in 

 full accordance with the principles and the practice of modern 

 scientific Sylviculture as fully expounded and demonstrated in 

 Germany, the home of Forestry in its highest technical and 

 practical perfection. 



