FORESTRY OF JAPAN. I I I 



that of education. This progress in forest industry has kept 

 pace with the astonishing" progress of forest education. In 

 1882, there was only one forest school as the sole organ of 

 forest education. It was established at Nishigahara, in the 

 suburb of Tokyo, under the name of "The Tokyo Forest 

 School," but now the schools which give lessons concerning 

 forestry number 47, of which 2 are of the university grade, 4 

 are of the special school grade and 41 are of the industrial 

 school grade (of which 19 are of higher grade while 22 are of 

 lower grade). 



Those which are of the university grade are the Agricul- 

 tural Department of the Tokyo Imperial University and that of 

 the Tohoku Imperial University. Those of the special school 

 grade are the Morioka Higher Agricultural and Forest College, 

 the Kagoshima Higher Agricultural and Forest College, the 

 practical forest course attached to the Agriculture Department 

 of the Tokyo Imperial University, and the similar course 

 attached to the Agricultural Department of the Tohoku 

 Imperial University. These schools have it as their object to 

 instruct students in theory as well as in practice so as to 

 enable them to meet with the demand of the forest industry 

 both Government and people, and to qualify them as forest 

 officials after their graduation. The Government is careful to 

 treat well the graduates of these schools. 



-Remarks : The practical courses attached to both of the Tokyo Imperial Agricul- 

 tural University and the Tohoku Agricultural University are counted as 

 distinct schools. 

 According to the latest returns, the Forest courses in 



.the Agricultural Departments of the Universities have turned 



out, up-to the present, 213 graduates, the various Higher 



