THE JOURNAL 



OF THE 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



FORESTRY EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



In November, 1902, a Departmental Committee appointed 

 by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to enquire into 

 and report upon British Forestry presented a unanimous 

 Report (Cd. 1,319) in which they urged, as the cardinal point 

 of their recommendations, "the immediate and effective 

 provision for bringing systematised instruction (in Forestry) 

 within the reach of owners, foresters and woodmen." An 

 article appeared in the issue of this Journal for April, 1904, 

 in which was shown the effect which had been given to this 

 recommendation up to that time. The purpose of the present 

 article is to show what further progress has been made and 

 what facilities exist in Great Britain at the present time for 

 instruction in Forestry. 



At the time the Departmental Committee were conducting 

 their enquiry there were, broadly speaking, no organised 

 courses of instruction in Forestry in Great Britain other than 

 those held at the Royal Indian Engineering College at 

 Cooper's Hill, and at the University of Edinburgh. At the 

 present time there exist the following centres : — The Univer- 

 sity of Oxford, to which the Indian School of Forestry has 

 been transferred; the Forest of Dean, where a School of 

 Forestry has been established by the Commissioners of His 

 Majesty's Woods and Forests; and eight other institutions,- at 

 each of which systematic courses of study in Forestry are 

 provided, viz., the University College of North Wales, 

 Bangor ; Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge; and the Royal Agricultural College, 

 Cirencester; the University of Edinburgh; the Glasgow and 



Vol. XVI. No. 12. 



MARCH, 1910. 



