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The teaching staff thus available totals fourteen, representing the following subjects : (1) Tropical Forestry, Forest Policy (Professor of Forestry). (2) Pathology, Forest Hygiene. (3) Forest Engineering and Utilization. (4) Forest Zoology. (5) Forest Management and Mensuration. (6) Mensuration. (7) Forest Economics. (8) Silviculture. (9) Microbiology. (10) Tree Physiology. (11) Forest Ecology. (12) Tropical Forest Botany. (13) Soil Science (a). (14) Soil Science (6). For many years severely restricted in space and facilities for teaching and research, the Imperial Forestry Institute and School of Forestry expect to occupy a new wellequipped building in 1950. University of Edinburgh 233. The Faculty of Science provides a three-year course, the first year being devoted to the basic sciences : chemistry, natural philosophy, zoology, and botany. The second and third years are confined to forestry subjects, taught by the staff of the Department of Forestry, which consists of the professor and four lecturers. University of Aberdeen 234. The Department of Forestry provides a three-year course similar in organization to that of Edinburgh; the staff consists of the Professor of Forestry (who delivers lectures in all the main forestry subjects) and four lecturers in special subjects. University College of North Wales (Bangor) 235. As in the cases of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, the course is three years, the first year being the same as that for the Pure Science faculty. The staff consists of the Professor of Forestry, Professor Emeritus and four lecturers. Practical Training 236. All four British Schools of Forestry conduct practical forestry training in vacations, which usually include at least one tour on the Continent; the preparation of a working plan is also compulsory in all cases. The length and scope of practical forestry training is, however, appreciably less than that insisted upon in continental Schools of Forestry. Teaching Staff and Research 237. Oxford, alone of the four British Schools of Forestry, combines facilities for education and forestry research, by close liaison with the subsidized Imperial Forestry Institute. None the other Schools of Forestry is associated with research institutes and consequently the faculty staff are, with minor exceptions, fully occupied in teaching, in the case of Aberdeen the major forestry subjects, Silviculture, Management, Utilization, Zoology, and Forest Policy, are taught by the Professor of Forestry.

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