Instruction In Forestry

The growing interest which is being developed in this country in the cultivation and preservation of our native foresta seems only to be a part of a general movement in the same direction in older eountries. Thus a memorial has just been presented by the Council of the Society of Arts, London, to the Secretary of State for India calling attention to the great and growing demand for the services of persons skilled in forest cultivation and analogous occupations, in India and the Colonies generally, and to the increasing desire on the part of land agents, land stewards and bailiffs to acquaint themselves wiiuthe scientific and technioal treatment of plantations. woods and foresta, aá a mean3 of fitting them for the more satisfactory management of landed estates in the United Kingdom. Tho memorialista believe that no suitable provisión exists at any of the great centres of instiuetion inÈngland for the teaching of natural scienee in its special refereuce to forestry, nor tor the scieimtic leacuiug ot syivicuiture in any of its branches; and are of opinión that by grafting itinerating classes for observation of the practical method adopted in the regularly w orked foresta abroad on classes for scienti lic teaching it home, estabiisbed in connection with such a school a3 already exists at Cooper's HiH satisfaetory means could be afforded of euabling studentá to obtain the requisito knowledge, both theoretical and practical, to qualify thein for entering upon the dutiea appertaining to forest management, whethcr in India, the Colonies or elsewhere. They thpiefore express their earnest hope that steps may be taken by the Council to establish a department for the teaching of ('orestry in the Royal Engineering College at Cooper's Hill.