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A PAPER on this subject was read by Major C. P. Ackers before the Royal Society of Arts on February 26, 1941. Some introductory remarks on the history of forestry in Great Britain were made and forestry education was alluded to. It is incorrect to say that forestry education seriously started at Oxford under the late Sir William Somerville. The late Sir William Schlich took forestry to Oxford when the R.I.E. College, Coopers Hill, was closed in 1905. Somerville was the first lecturer in forestry at the University of Edinburgh; afterwards his connexion was with agriculture. Major Ackers correctly states that the position of British woodlands of all types and ownership had sunk to a very low management before the War of 1914-18 and with the exception of the afforestation work of the Forestry Commission and a few isolated private instances the management has scarcely improved since.
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Private Estates and Forestry. Nature 147, 605 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147605a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147605a0