546 The J otirnal of Forestry. 



in 1874 it was reorgcani/ed by a Decree dated May 2, 1874, of which 

 the following is a translation; and the subjoined rules were laid down 

 by the same high authority : — 



" Helsliigfors, Ma^ 2nd, 1874. — We, Alexander II., &c., &c., make known that 

 since the Economic Department of the senate for Finland have come tons with 

 an humble representation as to the reconstruction of Evois Forest Institute, in a 

 manner suitable to the demands of the present time, and with this view have 

 proposed that the instruction in the institute for the future, while retaining its 

 fundamental plan, should nevertheless be so arranged as to take principally 

 a practical direction ; We, in harmony with this, confirmed by what the 

 Governor-general has found to be good on the subject, while abolishing the 

 Decree of the 15th April, 1859, concerning the organization of the institute, lay 

 down the following directions for the future action of the said institute : — 



" 1. The Forest Institute, together with the Crown Parks of Evois and 

 Wesijako thereto belonging, shall be placed under the strict superintendence 

 of a director, who shall likewise participate in communicating instruction, and 

 who shall conduct the practical exercises of the pupils in the field ; besides him 

 a teacher shall be installed in the institution, who shall aid the Forest-master 

 for the said Crown Parks in the practical instruction of the students. 



" 2. The director and teacher shall be entitled to a pension for themselves, 

 their widows and children, according to the rules laid down for the Civil 

 Service. While the director shall be nominated by Us on the mention of the 

 Economic Department of the senate, the teacher is to be nominated by the 

 said department of the senate as soon as the service in the prescribed order 

 renders it necessary. 



" 3. Exclusively of the higher scientific ends for which instruction is com- 

 municated, for the future instruction shall be given in forest science, geology, 

 the science of engineering, agriculture, forest law, map drawing, and linear 

 drawing. 



"4. The number of the ordinary pupils, the extent of the curriculum, the 

 division of the subjects of instruction amongst the teachers, the course of 

 lessons, and the proper hours, shall be, on the representation of the forest 

 administration, determined by the senate. 



"5. As a condition for reception into the institute, there is required a cei'tificate 

 of good character and Christian knowledge, and either a student's certificate from 

 the Alexander University, or a full certificate of dismission with approval from 

 some one of the public or private schools of the country. Pupils, on the 

 ground of such certificate, have to record themselves prepared to undergo the 

 student's examination, and prove then that they possess a well-grounded 

 acquaintance with the mathematical sciences, together with the knowledge 

 prescribed lor land measurers and forest masters, or they must produce other 

 well-authenticated evidence of their well-grounded knowledge in the last- 

 mentioned branches of science. 



" 6. Every pupil shall at the time of his inscription pay into the institute 

 40 marks ; but he shall receive for this free instruction, lodging, and heating. 



" 7. The institute shall consist of two clas&es, so arranged that a complete 

 course shall be gone through in two years. 



" 8. A pupil may not remain in the institution longer than four years. The 

 lectureships held by the three ordinary lecturers who have hitherto been 

 employed in the institute, and whose office has been abolished by 

 this decree, shall not be continued after the decease of the present 



