A STATUTE amending the regulations for the School of Forestry at Oxford has recently been approved and comes immediately into force. Hitherto the normal avenue to the final examination has been a special preliminary examination of a comparatively simple nature that could be taken by the student, if he wished, before he came into residence. Now the prior qualifications required of candidates for the final examination are so much higher that the School becomes, in part at least, a post-graduate one. Candidates are now required to have obtained honours in the new Science Moderations examination or in some final school or to be graduates of another university and they must have passed approved examinations in botany, geology, physics and chemistry if these have not been taken in the degree courses. The reason for this change, and the concurrent change in the curriculum of the School, is found in the requirements of the forest services and the development of forestry in the Empire. It has been decided also that after August of this year the Imperial Forestry Institute, established in 1924 and controlled by a director other than the professor of forestry since 1936, is to be joined to the professor's department as a self-contained unit under the immediate charge of the professor. Between 1920 and 1938, 324 men have been trained in the School of Forestry, 258 of whom have passed into the various forest services. During the fifteen years of the independent existence of the Institute, there have been 350 students in attendance.