gyo Forestry Education in Great Britain, [march, 



West of Scotland Agricultural College ; the Edinburgh and 

 East of Scotland College of Agriculture; and the Aberdeen 

 and North of Scotland College of Agriculture. In addition, 

 mention should be made of the Inverliever Estate, 

 in Argyllshire, which has been purchased by the Commis- 

 sioners of His Majesty's Woods and Forests for the purpose 

 of carrying out an experiment in afforestation on scien- 

 tific and economic lines, and of the Alice Holt Woods, 

 which are now being worked as a demonstration area 

 for the practical study of Forestry. In certain Agricul- 

 tural Colleges other than those mentioned, lectures on Forestry 

 are delivered, but instruction in this subject has not been 

 developed sufficiently at these institutions to require specific 

 mention here. 



The increase in the facilities for instruction in Forestry 

 during the past seven years has been brought about in the 

 first place by the attention drawn to the subject by the Report 

 of the Committee; secondly, by the action of the Commis- 

 sioners of His Majesty's Woods and Forests in certain areas 

 of land belonging to the Crown ; and thirdly, by the financial 

 assistance given by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 

 to the University College at Bangor, to Armstrong College, 

 and to the University of Cambridge, to enable these institu- 

 tions to appoint lecturers in Forestry. The agricultural 

 colleges in Scotland are in receipt of grants in respect of the 

 whole of their work from the Scotch Education Department, 

 while for the past two years the Royal Agricultural College 

 has been similarly aided by the Board of Education. 



The following particulars of the above-mentioned centres 

 have been supplied by the institutions named, or are taken 

 from published reports: — 



University of Oxford. — In 1905 the training of Indian 

 forestry students, which had previously been conducted at the 

 Royal Indian Engineering College at Cooper's Hill, was 

 transferred to the University of Oxford. The School of 

 Forestry which was then established is attended principally 

 by probationers for service in the Indian Forest Department, 

 who have been nominated by the Secretary of State for India, 

 but other members of the University may attend the instruc- 

 tion in Forestry. 



