i8o Forestry at Armstrong College. [june, 



The Council of the , Surveyors' Institution have decided to 

 offer annually the following scholarships, tenable for three years 

 by. students of the Institution, viz., one of 

 Scholarships ;^8o per annum at Cambridge University, 

 ^"^Survevo^^ one of £30 at the University College of 

 Institution.* North Wales, Bangor, and one of ^^50 at 

 the Armstrong College, Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne. Holders will be required to take the Natural Science 

 Tripos and the examinations for the Diploma in Agriculture at 

 Cambridge, or the equivalent for those examinations at the . 

 other Universities. The first examinations will be held at 

 Cambridge, Bangor, and Newcastle-on-Tyne respectively during 

 the -summer of 1906. 



Further particulars may be obtained from the respective 

 Colleges, or from the Secretary, the Surveyors' Institution, 

 12, Great George Street, London, S.W. 



An important advance in the development of the forestiy 



branch of Armstrong College, Newcastle- on-Tyne, has been 



effected by an agreement between , H,M., 



Forestry Instruc- Q^^e of Woods and the College authori- 

 tion at Armstrongr . ■ . , , 1 



Colleg'e. under which the latter take over the, 



local management of Chqpwell Woods, in 

 the county of Durham. These woods, which are within a few 

 miles of the College, extend over an area of nearly 900 acres, 

 and carry crops of larch, spruce, Scotch pine, oak, ash, and 

 other trees, most of which were planted about fifty years ago. 

 The woods will be gradually brought under a proper rotation 

 of cropping by the clearing and replanting of the more mature 

 portions from time to time, and the carr}'ing out of this work 

 will afford favourable opportunities for demonstrating the various 

 operations relating to practical forestry. 



Mr. J. F. F. Horner, H.M. Commissioner of Woods, has 

 obtained the consent of the Treasury to a house being provided, 

 in the- woods as a residence for the College lecturer in forestry, 

 Mr. A. C. Forbes, and to continue to pay as heretofore the ordi- 

 nary working expenses of the woods. The arrangement will 

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