6 



Forestry Education. 



[APRIL, 



with the College for demonstration purposes. The same 

 Department already possesses farms well within reach of 

 Bangor which are partially planted. 



" The Liverpool Corporation, it is understood, would allow 

 the plantations it is carrying out at Vyrnwy to be utilised for 

 demonstration purposes ; though, having already appointed its 

 own expert, it could not Tor the present at least) put the 

 management in the hands of the College Lecturer. 



" In addition to these demonstration forests, there are in the 

 neighbourhood of Bangor several large private plantations 

 which the students will be permitted to visit for the purposes 

 of observation." 



The Agricultural Committee of the Durham College of 

 Science " have come to the conclusion that educational work 

 of this character would be of very great importance and value 

 in the north of England, and that the College would be able to 

 organise and develop a satisfactory scheme of education in 

 forestry for the four counties of Northumberland, Durham, 

 Cumberland, and Westmorland. This would include the 

 appointment of an expert in Forestry, whose first duty would 

 be to give lectures to the agricultural students of the College, 

 many of whom intend to adopt the profession either of land 

 agent or of teacher of agricultural science ; he would also 

 conduct short courses of lectures for young foresters at suitable 

 centres, such as Alnwick, Hexham, Barnard Castle, Carlisle, 

 &c, and on the following day conduct the members of the class 

 to adjacent woods for demonstration purposes. In addition to 

 forestry, he would be required to give instruction in such subjects 

 as the planting, cultivation and layering of hedges, on the con- 

 struction of other fences and of gates, on the treatment of 

 timber in the timber yard, on methods of preserving timber, &c. 



" The Committee are of opinion that, in addition to the more 

 essentially educational functions of such an expert, his services 

 as a practical adviser (for which a charge might be made) would 

 be of the greatest possible value to the landowners and land 

 agents of the district. 



" The College recognises the importance of appointing an 

 expert who has a thorough knowledge of practical forestry, as 

 well as good scientific attainments. 



