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Forestry Education. 



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wards an examination will he held, and those student-woodmen 

 who pass satisfactorily will receive a certificate signed by the 

 Commissioner of Woods and the Deputy Surveyor of Dean 

 Forest." 



Reference is made in the President's reply, quoted above, 

 to the assistance promised by the Treasury towards the 

 foundation of schools of forestry in England and Wales. This 

 amounts to a sum of ^"500, which has been placed on the Estimates 

 for 1904-5 as a grant in aid of forestry instruction. After mature 

 consideration, and subsequently to the reply by the President 

 in the House of Lords, the Board have come to the conclusion 

 that this sum would be of most use if divided equally between 

 the Agricultural Departments of the University College of 

 North Wales, Bangor, and of the Durham College of Science, 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



The nature of the instruction which it is proposed to provide 

 at these two centres will be gathered from the following par- 

 ticulars furnished to the Board by the Governing Bodies of the 

 two Colleges named : — 



The University College of North Wales proposes " to meet 

 the recommendations of the Departmental Committee by the 

 appointment of an expert in forestry who should : — 



" {a) Give a course of lectures in forestry at the College to 

 the agricultural students ; 



" (b) Give special courses to young foresters and woodmen 

 employed in demonstration forests in the district ; 



" (c) Give practical professional advice in connection with 

 woods the owners of which desire an expert's opinion." 



" This scheme has been drawn up after consultation both 

 with some of the leading landowners and agents of North 

 Wales, who are giving it their warm support (about £$0 a year 

 having already been promised in subscriptions), and also with 

 Mr. Stafford Howard, a Commissioner of the Woods and 

 Forests Department, and Mr. J. Parry, the Water Engineer of 

 the Liverpool Corporation, who is in charge of the catchment 

 area for the Vyrnwy Waterworks. Mr. Stafford Howard 

 said that the Commissioners of Woods and Forests would con- 

 sider proposals for the purchase of suitable land in the neigh- 

 bourhood for planting, and allow it to be used in connection 



