74 FORESTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



(3) The Irish Forestry Society. 



(4) The English Forestry Association, which deals principally 



with the organisation of the market for British timber, 

 and the distribution of information on forestry generally. 



(5) The Landowners' Co-operative Forestry Society of Scotland, 



performing commercial functions in connection with 



forestry. 

 The following societies are also interested in forestry : — The 

 Surveyors' Institution, the Land Agents' Society, the Royal 

 Agricultural Society of England, the Highland and Agricultural 

 Society, and several others. 



IL Education and Research. 



Systematic forestry education was commenced in 1885, when 

 the first School of Forestry in the United Kingdom was organised, 

 on behalf of the Government of India, by the author of this book 

 in connection with the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers 

 Hill. On the closing of that College, the School was transferred, 

 in 1905, to the University of Oxford. Instruction in forestry was, 

 by degrees, organised at other universities and colleges so that at 

 the present time such instruction is obtainable at the following 

 institutions : — 



Oxford University ; Cambridge University ; University of 

 Wales, Bangor ; the Armstrong College, University of Durham ; 

 Edinburgh University ; Aberdeen University ; Edinburgh and 

 East of Scotland College of Agriculture ; Royal College of Science, 

 Dublin. 



The Oxford School of Forestry is the best known of these 

 establishments, where the great majority of the Indian forest 

 probationers have been educated, first at Coopers Hill and, since 

 1905, at Oxford, as well as a considerable number of other forestry 

 students, who have found professional occupation in practically 

 all parts of the British Empire. The course of study comprises 

 now the following subjects : — 



(1) The elements of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. 



(2) The formation and properties of Soils, including the 



elements of Geology. 



(3) Systematic Botany with special reference to trees, shrubs 



and other plants of interest in forestry. 



