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Second Winter Session :—

Botany including Mycology (Planters' Course);

Chemistry (Systematic and Practical) (Planters' Course);
Zoology including Entomology (Planters' Course).

Mechanics and Machinery.

The hours of the various Classes will be intimated at the commencement of each Session.

The composition fee for the Course is payable as follows: For the First Winter Session, £12 12s. exclusive of the Matriculation Fee of £2 2s.; For the Summer Session, £8 8s., and for the Second Winter Session, £12 12s. exclusive of the Matriculation Fee of £2 2s.

5. Degree of B.Sc. in Forestry.

The Degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry is conferred in accordance with the following Ordinance and Regulations :

UNIVERSITY COURT ORDINANCE No. 44; ABER

DEEN, No. 6 [Institution of Degree in Science in
Forestry and Relative Regulations].

[Approved by Order of His Majesty in Council, the 9th Day of March, 1914.]

At Aberdeen, the eleventh day of March, nineteen hundred and thirteen years.

Whereas, by section 21 of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, it is enacted that after the expiration of the powers of the Commissioners under the said Act, the University Court of each University shall have power to make such Ordinances as they think fit, with the approval of His Majesty in Council: inter alia (Subsection 2) "altering or revoking any of the Ordinances affecting such University which have been or may be framed and passed under the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1858, or this Act, and making new Ordinances".

And whereas the powers conferred on the said Commissioners have expired:

And whereas it is expedient that the University of Aberdeen, in order to encourage higher education in Forestry, should institute a Degree in Science in Forestry and frame Regulations therefor;

Therefore the University Court of the University of Aberdeen hereby statutes and ordains as follows:

I. A Degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry may be conferred by the University of Aberdeen.

II. Every candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry must pass the Preliminary Examination prescribed for Degrees in Science in Agriculture by Ordinance, Aberdeen No. 27 (Regulations for Degrees in Science in Agriculture) as amended by General Ordinance No. 38 (Regulations for Degrees in Science -Supplementary).*

III. (1) Candidates must, in the course of not less than three academic years, attend courses of instruction in the subjects specified in Section VII. of this Ordinance.

(2) It shall be the duty of the Senatus to determine from time to time which of the said courses shall be full courses and which shall be half courses respectively, and also to determine the number of meetings of which such full courses and half courses respectively shall consist, and to report its determination to the University Court for approval.

IV. (1) Five full courses or their equivalent, counting two half courses as one full course, must be taken in the University of Aberdeen and must include the course in Forestry.

(2) The remainder of the said courses may be taken in other Universities or Institutions approved by the University Court for purposes of Graduation in Science in Forestry.

Provided that the Court is satisfied that such courses of instruction are equivalent to the courses sanctioned in the University of Aberdeen.t

V. Residence and practical work in forests shall be required of each candidate to such extent and under such regulations as the Senatus, with the approval of the University Court, may from time to time appoint.+

Provided always that such residence and practical work shall include a period of at least six months before the candidate has commenced study of the subjects included under the Final Examination.

* For Preliminary Qualifications see under Admission to the University,

By resolution of the University Court of date 12th May, 1925, the following have been recognised under this Section :

(1) The Universities of Great Britain and Ireland; (2) Adelaide; Melbourne; Sydney; New Zealand; South Africa; Dalhousie Coll. and Univ., Halifax, N.S.; Queen's Coll. and Univ., Kingston, Ont.; Toronto; Manitoba; British Columbia; McGill, Montreal; Chicago, Ill.; Cornell, Ithaca, N. Y.; Johns Hopkins, Baltimore; Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.; Stanford Palo. Alto., Cal.; Michagan, Ann Arbor; Pennsylvania, Phil.; Yale, New Haven, Conn.; Princetown, New Jersey; Columbia, New York; The Imp. Univ. of Japan at Tokyo, Osaka, and Sendia; State Univ. of California, Berkeley, and the Univ. of New York.

A Certificate, signed by the Examiners, certifying that this Regulation has been complied with, must be produced when the Candidate enrols for Graduation.

VI. (1) It shall be the duty of the Professors and Lecturers at the end of the second term of each academic year to submit to the Senatus (through the proper Board of Studies and the Faculty of Science) a scheme specifying what proportion of the courses shall be devoted to lectures, practical demonstrations, examinations and tutorial work respectively. The Senatus shall transmit such scheme, with such observations as they may think fit to make thereon, to the University Court for approval.

(2) It shall be the duty of the Professors and Lecturers at the end of the second term of each academic year to submit to the Faculty of Science (through the proper Board of Studies) a syllabus of the subjects and books proposed for the work of their classes during the next academic year. The Faculty of Science shall transmit such syllabus, with such observations as they may think fit to make thereon, to the Senatus for approval.

VII. The subjects of study shall be as follows:-
:-

1. Botany (Syst. and Pract.).

2. Zoology (Syst. and Pract.).

3. Natural Philosophy (Syst. and Pract.).
4. Chemistry (Syst. and Pract.).

5. Geography.††

6. Meteorology.

7. Laboratory Course in Plant Physiology.*

8. Geology (Syst. and Pract.).

9. Forest Botany.

10. Forest Zoology.

11. Forest Chemistry (Soils, Plants and Forest Products).

12. Forest Engineering.*

13. Forest Surveying.

14. Economics.

15. Forestry.

(a) Sylviculture.

(b) Protection of Woodlands.

(c) Forest Management.

(d) Utilisation of Forest Products.

(e) Forest Policy.*

Provided always that, in case the provision of additional facilities for study or the advance of science renders modifications of this Curriculum desirable, the University Court, after consultation with the Senatus, shall have power to make such modifications,

* Added by resolutions of the University Court of *, 9th May, 1922, 7, 8th March, 1927 and

that the University Court shall communicate to the General Council all such modifications, and that any representation made thereon by the General Council within two months from the date of communication shall be taken into consideration by the Court before approval of such modification.

Provided further that the Senatus, with the approval of the University Court, shall have power to make Regulations, from time to time, regarding the order in which the subjects of the Curriculum are to be studied, the standard of the Degree Examinations and the conditions of admission thereto.

+ No candidate shall be admitted to the Degree Examination in any subject unless he produces a certificate showing that he has attended and duly performed the work of the practical course in that subject.

FIRST SCIENCE EXAMINATION.

VIII. (1) There shall be a First Science Examination in the four following subjects, viz.: (1) Botany, (2) Zoology, (3) Natural Philosophy, (4) Chemistry.

(2) The examination in all these subjects shall be of the same standard as the First Science Examination in these subjects for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Pure Science.

(3) Candidates may present themselves in any one or more of the subjects of the First Science Examination at any examination held after they have attended a full course in the subject, or subjects, professed.

FINAL SCIENCE EXAMINATION.

IX. (1) There shall be a Final Science Examination in the remaining subjects (5 to 13 inclusive) specified in Section VII. hereof.

(2) Candidates may present themselves in any one or more of these subjects at any examination held after they have passed the whole of the subjects comprised in the First Science Examination, and have attended the required courses in the subjects professed.

GENERAL.

X. A candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry shall not be deemed to have attended a class as part of the curriculum for that Degree who does not present a Certificate bearing not only that he has given regular attendance, but also that he has duly performed the work of the class.

+ Senatus 29th June, 1926; University Court, 13th June, 1926.

XI. Candidates who produce Certificates that they have satisfied all the conditions prescribed by this Ordinance, and who have passed the necessary examinations, shall be entitled to receive the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry, on payment of the fees required.

XII. The fee for admission to examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry shall be Nine* Guineas, or such other fee as may be fixed by the University Court from time to time, and the proportion of that sum to be paid by a candidate at each division of the examination shall be regulated from time to time by the University Court.

The Fee is payable, £4 4s. before admission to the First Science Examination, and £5 5s. before admission to the Final Examination. Re-examination Fee, £1 1s. for each subject.

XIII. The Degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry shall in no case be conferred on persons who have not complied with the conditions herein before set forth, and shall not be conferred honoris causa tantum.

XIV. This Ordinance shall come into force from and after the day on which it is approved by His Majesty in Council.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF these presents are sealed with the Common Seal of the University Court of the University of Aberdeen and subscribed on behalf of the University Court as required by Ordinance No. 6 (General No. 3) of the said Commissioners.

GEORGE ADAM SMITH,
Principal.

MATTHEW HAY,

Convener of the Finance Committee.

R. V. SOUTTER,

Interim Secretary.

6. Diploma in Forestry.

A Diploma in Forestry is conferred after examination on students who have attended the prescribed courses and complied with the following regulations :

1. The title of the Diploma shall be "The University Diploma in Forestry".

* Raised to £9 9s. by University Court Ordinance No. 98, General No. 4.

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