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Sylvicultural Schools for young lads at Dunkeld in Athole, or 

 Grantown in Strathspey for Scotland, and at Coleford in the 

 Forest of Dean or Lyndhurst in the New Forest for England, 

 where it would be easy to provide a fair practical education for 

 a limited number. Of course in this event there would not be 

 the scientific teachers within easy reach to give short courses 

 of elementary instruction ; but a little extra payment for travel- 

 ling expenses might no doubt circumvent the difficulty, and 

 overcome that drawback. 



For the first and second classes, those of landowners, land- 

 agents and factors, nothing short of the establishment of Chairs 

 of Forestry at Universities seems in any way to meet the neces- 

 sities of the case ; for, as I have already asserted, it is only at 

 such educational centres, and not at any special colleges, that 

 an opportunity can be given to students of hearing lectures on 

 this subject concurrently with other and more usual studies 

 fitting them for the ordinary vocations in life. And perhaps, 

 taking all things into consideration, the most suitable Univer- 

 sities for the dissemination of scientific instruction would be 

 Oxford for England, Edinburgh, and either St. Andrews or 

 Aberdeen for Scotland, and Dublin or Belfast for Ireland. 

 Even if Government were willing to establish Chairs of Forestry 

 at any or all of these places, it by no means follows that the 

 Universities applied to would accept the proposals, and permit 

 the incorporation of such Chairs into the existing teaching 

 body, unless they were granted a perfectly free hand with 

 respect to the selection and appointment of the Professors. 



If any such Chairs be formed from national funds, then the 

 salaries attached to them should be sufficient to obtain the 

 services of really highly-trained men, and should not be less 

 than 700 a year at Oxford, Edinburgh, and Dublin, or 600 

 at St. Andrews, Aberdeen, or Belfast ; and the lectures should 

 be free to all who wish to hear them whether matriculated 

 students of the year or not. The reason of this will be 

 apparent when it is stated that the attendance given to the 



