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branches are intended for the education of the highest 

 grades of the executive forester of the future. For it 

 is certain that in the future the man with the forestry 

 degree or diploma will have the preference over the 

 man who does not possess either. In fact, he is 

 already receiving the preference. The training for the 

 degree or diploma in forestry at the Universities 

 (Edinburgh gives a degree of B.Sc. in forestry, Oxford 

 and Cambridge a diploma) is very thorough, including 

 courses in the elementary portions of the sciences — 

 botany, zoology, chemistry, and natural philosophy ; 

 and advanced courses in forest botany, mycology, 

 forest zoology, forest engineering and surveying, forest 

 chemistry and geology, with forestry elementary and 

 advanced. Practical courses and excursions accom- 

 pany the lectures. 



At Edinburgh University three years' work are re- 

 quired to obtain the forestry degree, the purely forestry 

 part of the curriculum involving two years' work 

 (second and third years), including practical courses 

 of from six to seven months altogether. These latter 

 include a thorough training in the manual part of the 

 work, both in the nursery and in the woods. The 

 student is made to do with his own hands the whole 

 of the manual portion of forestry work described in the 

 previous article, on the principle that a man cannot be 

 fit to give orders unless he knows how the work should 

 be actually done. In Scotland we have magnificent 

 nurseries and areas of woods in which the student can 

 undertake this part of his work to perfection. 



The advanced practical courses consist of the de- 

 tailed measurement of the cubic contents of woods, 



