20 Studies in Forestry [CHAP. i. 



begun there in 1885, an annual deficit had for some years 

 to be met ; but by arranging for the education of these, 

 and charging them the usual College fees of 183 a year, 

 this deficit was transformed into a surplus, thereby proving 

 that the sum charged is in excess of what it actually costs 

 to feed and educate the lads. Had the large sums of money 

 which are being granted annually as salaries to the teaching 

 body there which consists of three Professors, three Lec- 

 turers, and one Instructor on the Forest branch of the College 

 Staff, with the additional assistance of one Director of Practical 

 Study on the Continent, who superintends the course of 

 study and the tours of inspection made throughout different 

 parts of Germany in order to see practical work on a large 

 scale been devoted to the foundation of two chairs, one of 

 Sylviculture and Management of Forests, the other of Pro- 

 tection of Forests and Utilization of Forest Produce, at each 

 of the three Universities, (i) Oxford or Cambridge, (2) Dublin 

 or Belfast, and (3) Edinburgh, or perhaps better still St. 

 Andrews or Aberdeen, from their proximity to extensive forests, 

 Great Britain might now have had a course of sound scientific 

 instruction at central points in England, Ireland, and Scotland, 

 fairly abreast of continental Forestry in so far as our own 

 particular requirements are concerned. 



The present instruction in Forestry at Cooper's Hill can 

 never be regarded as capable of being converted, without 

 previous translation to some University or Agricultural College, 

 into a national place of education in Sylviculture. Because, 

 in the first place, the lectures on Forestry are not capable of 

 being listened to ex via along with any simultaneous course 

 of instruction in what may be more likely to prove better 

 bread-winning studies (although at a University this might 

 very easily be arranged for) ; whilst, in the second place, the 

 charge of 183 a year, and a three years' course, make such 

 a training absolutely prohibitive for the majority of those who 

 otherwise might profit by a shorter and less expensive course 



