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Excerpt from Opinions of Continental Foresters on the Location of a School of Forestry
IN the spring of 1877 I published a pamphlet entitled, The Schools Of Forestry in Europe: a Plea for the Creation Of a School Of Forestry in connection with the Arboretum at Edinburgh.
Two Objections to such a measure have been advanced: the first is that the expense would be very great the second, that the locality is unsuitable.
In connection with the first of these Objections I would submit for consideration that it has lately been stated authoritatively, with regard to the salaries attached to professorships in the University Of Edin burgh, that the average salary Of the chairs of this class in the Faculty Of Arts is only �0 a year; in the Faculty of Law, �6; and in the Faculty Of Medicine, �0. One chair has no salary. In the Faculty Of Divinity the salaries are, on the average, larger than in the other Faculties; but the class fees are small, and the field from which students are drawn is limited.
In connection with the second Objection I would submit for con sideration the opinions in favour of and against substituting for isolated professional schools of forestry, professorships Of forestry in univer sities and other educational institutions Of a more comprehensive character, expressed at the Congress of German Foresters, held in the autumn Of 1874 at Freiburg, in the Breisgau, in the Grand Duchy Of Baden, at which this subject was fully discussed.
It was the third congress which had been held in Germany, and it was numerously attended, more numerously than either Of the pre ceding meetings. The members Of the congress were from all parts of Germany, and from countries adjacent: 134 were from Baden; 55 from Bavaria; 55 from Prussia; 41 from Wurtemburg; 35 from alsace-lorraine; 21 from the Central German states; 15 from Hesse: and there were besides 18 from Switzerland, 3 from Austria, and 1 from Russia - 378 in all. In that number were 23 members who were not professional foresters; a large proportion Of the authors Of German works on forestry were there, and many Government Officials entrusted with the administration of forest management in Prussia, Bavaria, Wurtemburg, Hesse, and Baden.
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