 After completing the four-year BSc course in Forestry of the Edinburgh University and finishing the written examinations, went to Germany in October 1913 for preparing a Working Plan on the Black Forest as a part of the BSc Forestry 'course.He spent eight months at the Black Forest and then went to Göttingen in April 1914 and joined the Georg-August-University, named after King George II of Great Britain.there to complete his work.