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Eoard, of which the Director of Kew Gardens might be e.v officio president, 
and the forest professors at Cooper's Hill members, and to which the Royal 
Agricultural Society, the Highland Society, the Surveyors' Institution, and 
similar bodies should send delegates, while two or three of tlie great owners 
of private woodlands should be requested to sit on the board. This board 
would be necessary to keep the teaching in touch with the requirements of 
the country ; and it should control the course of study, arrange for the 
examinations and granting of diplomas, and regulate the scale of fees." 
The Select Committee in tlieii' report, say : — 
" Your Committee recommend the establishment of a Forest Board. They 
are also satisfied by the evidence that the establishment of forest schools, 
or at any rate of a course of instruction and examination in forestry, would 
be desirable, and they think that the consideration of the best mode of carry- 
ing this into effect might be one of the functions entrusted to such a Forest 
Board. 
" As regards the Board of Forestry, the Committee submit the following 
suggestions : — 
" 1. That the Board should be presided over by a responsible official (an 
expert by preference) appointed by the Government and reporting annually 
to some department of the Government. 
" 2. That the Board should be so constituted as to comprise the pruicipal 
agencies interested in the promotion of a sounder knowledge of forestry, 
especially the various teaching and examining bodies, as weU as the profes- 
sional societies. 
" 3. Tliat the following bodies should be invited to send delegates to the 
Board : — 
The Eoyal Agricultural Society of England ; 
The Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland ; 
The Royal Dublin Society ; 
The Office of Woods and Forests; 
The Linu£ean Society ; 
The Surveyors' Institution ; 
The English Arboricultural Society ; 
The Scottish Arboricultiu-al Society ; 
and that the Director of Kew Gardens should be a member ex officio. 
"4. That the Board should also comprise three members of each House 
of Parliament, and a certain number of owners or managers of large wood- 
lands, a preference in the latter case being given to those who are in a 
position to afford facilities for study in their woods." 
I have quoted the above in extenso, as it places the matter 
before us in a clear light ; it will also be seen how fully the 
recommendatioia agrees with that suggested by the above-named 
witnesses. 
Further, with regard to the functions of the Board : — 
"(a) To organise forest schools, or, at any rate, a course of instruction 
in forestry. 
" (6) To make provision for examinations. 
" (c) To prepare an official syllabus and text-book." 
That the examiner should be required to examine in the 
following subjects, namely : — 
