Lately Published, Price 68, 

 THE FORESTS OF ENGLAND 



AND 



The Management of them in Bye-gone Times. 



COHFILRD BT 



JOHN CROUMBIB BROWN, LL.D., 



Formerly Qmemment Botanist at the Cape of Oood Hope, and Pro/eisor of Botamy 

 in the South African College, Capetown, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 

 ' Fellow of the Lirmean Society, ani Honara/ry Vice-President of the Afriean 

 IrtsHtute of Paris, etc. 



EDINBURGH: 



OLIVER AND BOTD, TWEEDDALE COURT. 



LONDON : SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & CO. 



1883. 



ADVERTISEMENT. 



In the spring of 1877 I published a brochure entitled 

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

 School of Forestry in connection with the Arhoratum inEdinhwrgh. 

 It was addressed " To the Right Honourable the Lord 

 Provost, the Magistrates, and Town Councillors of Edin-' 

 burgh ; to the Office-Bearers of the Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society 5 to the Promoters of the purchase of ground at 

 Inverleith, to be transferred to Government, for the for- 

 mation of an Arboretum ; and all others whom it may 

 concjrn." 



In this Plea I had occasion to state : — 



" I went to the Cape of Good Hope to act as Colonial 

 Botanist in the beginning of 1863. On my arrrival I was 

 officially informed that the office had been created some 



