972 Forestry Education in Great Britain, [march, 



Agriculture, but since July, 1907, it has occupied an indepen- 

 dent position as regards both the College and the University. 



Two courses of study are offered by the College, one of 

 these qualifying for the degree of B.Sc. in Forestry in the 

 University of Wales, and the other for a College Certificate. 

 A third course, leading up to a Diploma, is at present under 

 consideration. The degree course extends over three years 

 subsequent to passing a Matriculation Examination, while the 

 course for the Forestry Certificate may be covered during a 

 single session. Candidates taking the degree= course devote 

 their first qualifying year to general scientific study, attending 

 classes in Botany, Chemistry, Physics and Zoology. During 

 their second year they pursue the study of these subjects to 

 a more advanced stage, and enter upon Forestry work. In 

 the third year Forestry is continued and final courses taken 

 in certain prescribed science subjects. In order to obtain 

 the Forestry Certificate students need not matriculate, but 

 have to satisfy the examiners in Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, 

 and Agriculture, in addition to Forestry. 



The number of students attending Forestry classes averages 

 seven or eight each session. The fees are low, amounting 

 only to £15 15s. per annum. 



Several large proprietors have kindly placed their woods 

 at the disposal of the College for Forestry instruction and 

 practice, while an experimental area has been laid out by 

 the Department at Chirk in Denbighshire. Lord Penrhyn 

 allows the classes to visit his park, which immediately adjoins 

 the College. In the park there is an excellent collection of 

 conifers and broad-leaved trees, while there is also a large 

 estate nursery which is useful for demonstration purposes. 

 There are woods amounting to several hundred acres within 

 a comparatively short distance of the College, and use is 

 made of these for excursions. 



The freehold of the land at Chirk was presented in 1906 

 to the Denbighshire County Council by Mr. John Mahler 

 of Penissa Glyn, upon condition that it should be devoted 

 to Forestry investigation carried out by the Department at 

 Bangor. The land is 50 acres in extent and it has been 

 divided into some thirty-two plots, each plot constituting a 

 separate experiment. It is situated at a high elevation 



