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 
