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Forestry Education. 



[APRIL, 



provide for the education of the young men who are themselves 

 likely to become landowners. For that reason I should prefer 

 that the second school of forestry should be attached to one of 

 the great Universities. But that is a matter which still remains 

 open, and until the decision of the Secretary of State for India 

 has been arrived at as to the future of Coopers Hill College, I 

 am not in a position to say where the second of those schools 

 of forestry will be established " 



The Forest of Dean, with the Highmeadow Woods, will thus 

 form a State demonstration area ; and, so far as regards Eng- 

 land, the recommendations contained in paragraphs 17-19 of 

 the Committee's Report are carried out in their entirety. The 

 nature of the instruction now provided at the Forest of Dean 

 is shown in the following memorandum, which was prepared by 

 His Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests : — > 



" With a view to giving effect to the recommendation con- 

 tained in paragraph 25 of the Report of the recent Depart- 

 mental Committee on British Forestry, the Commissioner of 

 Woods in charge of Dean Forest and the Highmeadow 

 Woods adjoining has arranged, with the sanction of the 

 Treasury, to start an experimental course of instruction for 

 student-woodmen, who will be employed in these Crown woods 

 during the time of their training. 



" Mr. C. O. Hanson, of the Indian Forest Service, has been 

 appointed Instructor, under the supervision of Mr. Philip Baylis, 

 the Deputy Surveyor of Dean Forest. 



"The classes are held in the Crown Office, Coleford, and began 

 in the middle of January last. 



" The course will be spread over two years, and will include 

 instruction in forest botany, sylviculture, forest mensuration, and 

 protection of woods. 



" Eight young men have applied to become students, six from 

 the Forest of Dean, where they are already employed, and two 

 from Windsor. 



" This is as many as employment can be found for at present. 

 It is hoped that next year, when these eight will have completed 

 the first part of the course and will go on to the second part, 

 eight more may take up the first part in succession. 



" At the end of the first two years and every year after- 



