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first Forestry was attached to the Department of Agriculture, but 

 since July, 1907, it has occupied an independent position as re- 

 gards both the College and the University. 



Two courses of study are offered by the College, one of these 

 qualifying for the degree of B. Sc. in Forestry in the University 

 of Wales, and the other for a College Certificate. A third course, 

 leading up to a Diploma, is at present under consideration. The 

 degree course extends over three years subsequent to passing a 

 Matriculation Examination, while the course for the Forestry Cer- 

 tificate may be covered during a single session. Candidates taking 

 the degree course devote their first qualifying year to general 

 scientific study, attending classes In Botany, Chemistry, Physics 

 and Zoology. During their second year they pursue the study of 

 these subjects to a more advanced stage, and enter upon Forestry 

 work. In the third year Forestry is continued and final courses 

 taken in certain prescribed science subjects. In order to obtain 

 the Forestry Certificate students need not matriculate, but have to 

 satisfy the examiners in Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, and Agri- 

 culture, in addition to Forestry. 



The number of students attending Forestry classes averages 

 seven or eight each session. The fees are low, amounting only to 

 15 155. per annum (francs 396). 



Several large proprietors have kindly placed their woods at the 

 disposal of the College for Forestry instruction and practice, while 

 an experimental area has been laid out by the Department at 

 Chirk in Denbighshire. Lord Penrhyn allows the classes to visit his 

 park, which immediately adjoins the College. In the park there 

 is an excellent collection of conifers and broad-leaved trees, while 

 there is also a large estate nursery which is useful for demonstra- 

 tion purposes. There are woods amounting to several hundred 

 acres within a comparatively short distance of the College, and 

 use is made of these for excursions. 



The freehold of the land at Chirk was presented in 1906 to 

 the Denbighshire County Council by Mr. John Mahler of Penissa 

 Glyn, upon condition that it should be devoted to Forestry inve- 

 stigation carried out by the Department at Bangor. The land is 

 50 acres (20 hectares) in extent and it has been divided into some 

 thirty-two plots, each plot constituting a separate experiment. It 

 is situated at a high elevation (850-1250 feet, equal to 258 to 380 

 metres) and is of a character frequently found in Wales. The 

 planting has now been completed, and already some interesting 



