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who are darker than white men, may be thus accounted for. It is thus 

 that in India millions who speak Hindoo languages show by their tint 

 that their race is mixed between that of the Aryan conquerors of the 

 land and its darker indigenes. An instructive instance of this very 

 combination is to be seen in the gypsies, low-caste wanderers who 

 found their way from India and spread over Europe not many centu- 

 ries since. Fig. 24, a gypsy woman from Wallachia, is a favorable 

 type of these latest incomers from the East, whose broken-down Hin- 

 doo dialect shows that part of their ancestry comes from our Aryan 

 forefathers, while their complexion, swarthiest in the population of 

 our country, marks also descent belonging to a darker zone of the hu- 

 man species. 



Thus to map out the nations of the world among a few main varie- 

 ties of man, and their combinations, is, in spite of its difficulty and 

 uncertainty, a profitable task. But to account for the origin of these 

 great primary varieties or races themselves, and exactly to assign to 

 them their earliest homes, can not be usefully attempted in the present 

 scantiness of evidence. 







EUEOPEA^ SCHOOLS OF FORESTRY. 



Br N. H. EGLESTON. 



THE word " forestry " has not yet come into familiar use in this 

 country, and its meaning is understood only by the few ; " school 

 of forestry " is still less comprehensible. It is only natural that our 

 people, occupying a region covered to a great extent with a dense and 

 varied growth of trees, in regard to which no apprehension of defi- 

 ciency has been suggested until within a comparatively short time, 

 should have entertained little thought of the forest as a thing to be 

 specially cared for and cultivated. Much less should it have occurred 

 to them to make its maintenance an object of scientific study, to put 

 the school and the wood, education and trees, into close association, 

 and to think and speak of " schools of forestry." 



Both these terms, however, are well understood abroad, and the 

 time has come, in the changed condition of things here, when we 

 should know what they mean, and that practically. 



The " school of forestry," or whatever equivalent may be used in 

 different countries, signifies an organization for the purpose of giving 

 instruction in regard to all that pertains to the growth of trees, espe- 

 cially in masses, and their management, including their natural history, 

 their adaptation to the arts, and their influence upon human welfare. 

 It regards the forest in altogether a different light from that in which 

 it is considered with us, or in fact from that in which it has been 

 considered in any country until within a comparatively recent pe- 



