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MCR - Miscellaneous Reports Collection
- 1 - Europe
  - 1 - Great Britain/ British Isles

Ref No	MCR/1/1/25
Alt Ref No	MR/25
Alt Ref No	geographical classification 1.2
Title	Forest School
Description	Manuscript and typescript correspondence, press cuttings and printed documents relating to forestry education and a proposed Forest School, and the proposed establishment of a Board of Forestry. Includes letters from [Colonel George Falconer] Pearson, John Lubbock, [Wilhelm Philipp Daniel] Schlich, H Marshall Ward, Reginald Hawthorn Hooker and others. Includes letters from Thiselton-Dyer, and (f35) manuscript letter from Joseph Hooker to Ralph Robert Wheeler Lingen. Includes papers relating to the Select Committee on Forestry, 1885-1887, requesting Thiselton-Dyer's contribution. Printed material includes: - COLONIAL TIMBER. ANALYSIS OF RETURNS IN REPLY TO QUERIES RELATING TO COLONIAL TIMBER. (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode For Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1878) - Col G F Pearson, 'The Teaching of Forestry', 1883 - 'Training of Candidates for the superior Staff of the Forest Service in India by D Brandis, C I E, F R S, late Inspector General of Forests to the Government of India, dated 1st July 1883' - A SCHOOL OF FORESTRY. SPEECH OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK ON THE VOTE FOR THE OFFICE OF WOODS AND FORESTS, 1883 - REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY; TOGETHER WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE, MINUTES OF EVIDENCE, AND APPENDIX (London: Henry Hansard and Son, 1885) - 'An Anglo-Canadian Forest School', THE CANADIAN GAZETTE (1886) - 'Tenth Ordinary Meeting: The Outlook of the World's Timber Supply, by Dr W Schlich', JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS (London: George Bell and Sons, 1 Mar 1901).
Date	14 Jan 1882-15 Aug 1902
Subject	Forests and forestry
Subject	Forestry schools and education
Format	Manuscript papers
	Published documents
	Press cuttings
	Typescript
Collection Title	Miscellaneous Reports
Level	File
Extent	1 volume
Language	English

Associated persons and organisations

Code	Name	Dates
DS/UK/7	Ward; Harry Marshall (1854-1906)	1854-1906
DS/UK/90	Thiselton-Dyer; Sir; William (1843-1928); Knight; British botanist and third director of Kew	1843-1928
DS/UK/89	Hooker; Sir; Joseph Dalton (1817-1911); Knight; Botanist and second director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	1817-1911
DS/UK/213	Lubbock; John (1834-1913); 1st Baron Avebury; politician and scientist	1834-1913
DS/UK/218	Lingen; Ralph Robert Wheelr (1819-1905); Baron Lingen; civil servant	1819-1905
DS/UK/219	Hooker; Reginald Hawthorn (1867-1944); civil servant, statistician and meteorologist	1867-1944
DS/UK/215	Schlich; William Philipp Daniel (1840-1925); Sir; forester	1840-1925
DS/UK/214	Pearson; George Falconer (?1827-1923); Colonel; soldier and forester	?1827-1923

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