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be responsible for the working of the considerable 

 afforested areas we may hope will be in existence 

 twenty years hence. » 



There are good educational centres for this purpose 

 in existence in various places throughout the 

 country. It is in part due, not entirely, but to a 

 considerable extent, to the far-sighted action of the 

 Development Commissioners in placing the improve- 

 ment of forestry education, and the appliances and 

 buildings required for this purpose, in the forefront 

 of their forestry schemes that the end of the war 

 has found us so well prepared in this respect. 



You will ask, how is the forestry expert trained ? 

 It is a specialized training. We wiU briefly con- 

 sider the training for the gazetted ranks first. At 

 Edinburgh University the student is required to 

 possess an education enabling him to pass the 

 preliminary examination of the University. During 

 his first year's work for the degree of B.Sc. in 

 Forestry he follows courses in Botany, Zoology, 

 Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry, receiving a 

 solid grounding in those subjects. During his 

 second year he takes the first part of his forestry 

 with Forest Botany, Forest Engineering, Surveying, 

 and Geology. A considerable aAiount of practical 

 forestry work in the field is undertaken in the Easter 

 vacation, summer session, and part of the summer 

 vacation of this year. In his third year the student 

 takes advanced forestry, forest chemistry, and forest 

 zoology, the summer session being entirely devSted 

 to the final practical course in forestry. 



If he passes successfully through this curriculum. 



