ADVERTISEMENT. 



IN the Spring of 1877 I published a Brochure entitled 

 The Schools of Forestry in Europe : a Plea for the Creation of a 

 School of Forestry in connection with the Arboretum in Edinburgh, 

 in which, with details of the arrangements made for 

 instruction in Forest Science in Schools of Forestry in 

 Prussia, Saxony, Hanover, Hesse, Darmstadt, Wurtemburg, 

 Bavaria, Austria, Poland, Russia, Finland, Sweden, France, 

 Italy, and Spain, and details of arrangements existing 

 in Edinburgh for instruction in most of the subjects 

 included amongst preliminary studies, I submitted for 

 consideration the opinion 'that with the acquisition of 

 this Arboretum, and with the existing arrangements for 

 study in the University of Edinburgh, and in the Watt 

 Institution and School of Arts, there are required only 

 facilities for the study of what is known on the Continent 

 as Forest Science to enable these Institutions conjointly, 

 or any one of them, with the help of the others, to take a 

 place amongst the most completely equipped Schools of 

 Forestry in Europe, and to undertake the training of 

 foresters for the discharge of such duties as are now 

 required of them in India, in our Colonies, and at 

 home.' 



