1904.] 



Forestry Education. 



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certain Scottish landowners with a view to securing a suitable 

 area of forest land for the purpose of planting in the manner 

 suggested by the Departmental Committee. 



"We have also been successful in obtaining from the 

 Treasury the promise of assistance in the foundation of at 

 least two schools of forestry in England. Where those schools 

 shall be established I am not yet able to inform your Lord- 

 ships ; but we have had applications from the University 

 College of Bangor, with which my noble friend Lord Powis is 

 intimately connected, from the South Eastern College at Wye, 

 from the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth, from 

 the Durham College of Science, and the Royal Agricultural 

 College at Cirencester, and the matter is also under the con- 

 sideration of the Yorkshire College at Leeds, the University 

 College at Reading, and the University of Cambridge- 

 With regard to the University of Cambridge, I have been 

 considering whether that University would not be one of the 

 first at which such a school of forestry should be established ; 

 but, as your Lordships are probably aware, a Committee has 

 been sitting for some time past to enquire into the condition 

 of Coopers Hill College, which up to now has existed as a 

 school for the training of those who go out to assist in 

 forestry in India. I am not in a position to say what may be 

 the final decision of the Secretary of State with regard to the 

 continued existence of Coopers Hill College, but it is, I think, 

 a matter of common knowledge, among those interested, that 

 in recent years suggestions have been more than once made 

 for the removal of the Indian forestry students from Coopers 

 Hill. 



" I should like, naturally, to establish these schools in two 

 localities, one of which would be devoted more particularly to 

 the training of young woodmen, and the other to the training of 

 young men who are likely either to become themselves land- 

 owners or to embrace the career of land agents ; and I think that 

 those two would be well found in a combination which should 

 include either the school to which my noble friend Lord Barnard 

 referred* or the University College of Bangor. Either of those 

 would provide the requisite materials for the education of young- 

 woodmen, but I do not think they would to the same extent 



* The Durham College of Science. 



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