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Forestry Diploma at Oxford. 



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In nurseries where the ground is carefully cultivated the 

 fungus does not gain a foothold, and when trees are planted in 

 localities where the fungus abounds, if the soil round the stem is 

 broken up once a year all danger will be avoided. 



The University of Oxford, by a statute passed in 1905, has 

 provided for the appointment of delegates for superintending 

 the instruction of probationers for the 

 DiT loma^t I ncnan Forest Service and the granting 

 Oxford.* °f diplomas in forestry to members of the 

 University generally. The diploma in 

 forestry will be granted to members of the University who 

 have (1) pursued an approved course of study extending over 

 two years in Oxford ; (2) undergone a course of practical work 

 at places and under conditions approved by the delegates ; 

 and (3) satisfied the examiners in prescribed examinations. 



The practical course in forestry comprises nine months, from 

 the early part of October to the beginning of the following July. 

 f For about seven months the students are placed with selected 

 German forest officers, who will introduce them to the manage- 

 ment of well-regulated forest districts which have been under 

 systematic management for a long period of time. During the 

 remaining time students will visit and examine specially inter- 

 esting forest districts, so as to become acquainted with the 

 management of forests under varying conditions. The students 

 will keep diaries in German, in which they record their observa- 

 tions, with critical remarks. They will also prepare a complete 

 working plan for a small range. 



There will be two examinations (partly written and partly 

 practical) for the diploma. The subjects of the first examina- 

 tion] will be 1 "botany, geology, and entomology; and the sub- 

 jects of the second examination will be forestry, theoretical 

 and practical, including silviculture and the protection, utilisa- 

 tion, management and administration of forests. The con- 

 ditions of admission to the examinations require candidates 

 to have passed responsions or an equivalent examination, 



* For previous notes as to Forestry Education, see Journal, Vol. XL, p. I, April, 

 19045^0!. XL, p. 751, March, 1905 ; and Vol. XIL, p. 564, Dec, 1905. 



