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THIS pamphlet is written in the form of a letter or address to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh and the promoters of the Arboretum at Inverleith, and is in short a strong argument in favour of the formation of a school of Forestry to be connected with the Arboretum. Dr. Brown shows that in France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Poland, Russia, Finland, Sweden, and in fact in almost every country except Great Britain, its Colonial dependencies and the United States of America, such schools exist under Government authority, and it is in these very countries that such schools would be of immense utility. The proposed curriculum of three years' study sketched out by Dr. Brown as likely to prove advantageous is, in the main, good, but we think that the French and German languages should be taken before the end of the third year. The notices of the arrangements and systems of studies in the various Continental forest schools are not without interest. Dr. Brown concludes his “plea” with a comparison of the English and Continental forests; the extent of the latter, together with the threatened lack of fuel by the extinction of forests as against our supplies of this necessary article from coal mines, being, no doubt, among the principal causes of the decrease of forest training in this country. The lack of special literature on the subject in the English language also compares badly with that of the Continent.
The Schools of Forestry in Europe. A Plea for the Creation of a School of Forestry in Connection with the Arboretum at Edinburgh.
By John Crombie Brown, &c. (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd.)
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The Schools of Forestry in Europe. A Plea for the Creation of a School of Forestry in Connection with the Arboretum at Edinburgh . Nature 16, 41 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016041a0
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