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managers. A forest school for woodmen has been started by 

 the Commissioners of Woods in the Forest of Dean. This 

 step is Hkely to be of great importance. It provides for the 

 training of a class of men who are wanted, not only for the 

 Crown "Woods, but also by private proprietors who own a 

 limited area of woodlands. The instructor in charge has 

 made a fair start under the supervision of the Deputy 

 Surveyor, Forest of Dean, and it is to be hoped that the 

 school will prosper. The students, who are of the woodman 

 class, have theoretical instruction on two days in each week, 

 and they work in the forest the remaining four days. 



A forestry branch exists at the Durham College of Science. 

 Instruction in forestry has for a series of years been given at 

 the University of Edinburgh, and there is every prospect 

 of its being considerably enlarged. Another forest school 

 has been established in Wales. Further measures in the 

 same direction will, no doubt, follow, especially if the State 

 authorities see their way towards helping a little more than 

 has been done in the past. Owing to the abolition of Coopers 

 Hill College, the School of Forestry for the training of the 

 probationers for the Indian Forest Service has been transferred 

 to the University of Oxford. At that place, not only the said 

 probationers but any other meml)er of the University can 

 obtain the Diploma of Forestry. In addition, other members 

 of the University can take part in any branch of the instruc- 

 tion in forestry, an opportunity which, it is hoped, the sons of 

 landed proprietors will utilise to obtain some sound views 

 regarding economic forestry. 



It is understood that Cambridge also is about to add a 

 forest branch to the University. 



3. Projvictorsliip of the La)id. 



There exists one great difficulty, inasmuch as the bulk of 

 the mountain and heath land is private property. In some 

 cases, the proprietors are not inclined to plant, and in others 

 they cannot afford to meet the initial expense of planting, or 



