398 The Jottrnal of Forestry. 



Provision is also made for foreigners or others who have studied 

 forest science elsewhere, obtaining the (|nalification for service in 

 Spain which this school can give. 



Of one who is admitted to the school as alv.mno ex,i<yr'iio, there are 

 required the certificates and entrance examinations required of the 

 others. It is not required of him tliat he should give attendance on 

 the classes, but he may if he chooses attend all of them, and he may 

 claim to be examined in the several subjects taught in the school, 

 with the following exceptional limitations : — Before being examined in 

 the laying out of forests he must have studied in the school applied 

 mechanics ; before being examined in sylviculture he must liave 

 studied in the school applied mineralogy, applied botany, applied 

 zoology, and applied geology ; before being examined in the geography 

 and classification of mountains he must have studied in the school 

 meteorology and climatology ; and before being examined in forest 

 industries he must have studied in the school the measurement of 

 wood and applied chemistry. 



Lectures are given so far as practicable in the forenoon, and exer- 

 cises in drawing, in writing, and in cabinet or laboratory studies, and 

 in practices in the field in the afternoon of the day. The students 

 are required to follow the course of study in the order prescribed, and 

 to submit to examinations on these in the years appropriated to them. 

 The results of these examinations are recorded, and at tlie close of the 

 course the order of merit in which the students stand is determined 

 by these results; and in the diploma given to each, student is certified 

 the rank of his attainments. 



The examinations take place in the months of June and Sep- 

 tember, and the drawings, charts, and written exercises must all be 

 executed within the walls of the school. 



It may surprise some of your readers if they be informed that the 

 Spanish language is rich in literature relating to forest economy. I have 

 had sent to me a work l)y Don Jose Jordaua y Morero, Ingienero de 

 Monies, entitled Apunks BihlioriraplLic Foresfale, which is a cxUdogvo. 

 ra«so?ini of 1,120 printed books and MSS., &c., in Spanish, on subjects 

 connected with forest science. 



