AN AUSTRALIAN STUDY OF AMERICAN FORESTRY. 35 
The students should be not less than seventeen: years of age, of good 
health, character, and physique, and with educational attainments equivalent 
to those required for entrance to the public service or for the junior university 
examination. It is desirable that they should include elementary biology, 
zoology and geology, mathematics, physics and chemistry in their training. 
The prerequisites for admission to the Washington School are—English, 
algebra, plane and solid geometry, physics, history, botany, a foreign language, 
and an elective subject. 
The conditions of entrance should be on an apprenticeship basis with 
compensation. 
Preference should be given to junior clerks and cadets already in the 
services. 
A syllabus is suggested in the attached draft. Largely, it is a matter 
of development, and should be elastic enough to permit of alteration from 
time to time. The details should be left to the determination of the Principal 
of the School. 
Forest surveying, reconnaissance and mapping, and the preparation of 
working plan reports are the strong needs of the Forest Services, and should 
be features of the course. As the timber sale policy extends, as the State 
enters more intimately into relations with the timber industry, as it advances 
further and further into the realm of practical and educative forestry, it will 
be requisite to develop a scientific system of stumpage appraisals, to know 
the timber business from beginning to end, to educate the industry to better 
methods. Lumbering, stumpage appraisals, and logging engineering are 
important subjects to be taught. Possibly special courses therein could be 
provided for men interested in the timber industry. The new science of 
management should be regarded as an essential part of the subject of forestry 
administration, which should deal with all branches of Forest Service routine. 
Silviculture, forestry, and botany are fundamental subjects, and their teaching 
should be spread over the whole three or four years’ course. Bushcraft and 
everything relating thereto should be dealt with in the first and second years. 
AUSTRALIA, 
FIRST YEAR. 
Forest Botany—The vegetable kingdom :— 
(a) The forest and the trees; nomenclature and classification of 
timbers, and forage and useless trees—typical species. 
(b) Ecology, forest types, forests as a whole, silvical characteristics, 
forest regions. 
Forestry— 
(2) The Forest Service, the forester, the forest. 
An introduction to forestry. 
(6) Introduction to forestry economics—forests as a resource ; history 
of conservation; forests and climate; soils, &c.; indirect 
utilities. 
Busheraft—Camping and transportation ; veterinary science; carpentry ; first 
aid, &c.; food lists; camp cookery ; camp equipment. 
Scientific Management—Principles and examples ; labour-saving ; application 
to forestry. : 
