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The Forest Scliool of the CTrand Duchy of Baden is at Karlsruhe, -where it it 

 combined with a college of Engineers and a Jr'olytechnic Institution. 



The Wirtemberg Forest Academy is comliaed with an agricultural college 

 at Hohenheim not far from Tubingen. 



The Forest School of Bavaria, which enjoys a well-merited celebrity, is at 

 Asschaffensburg, between Frankfort and Wurtzburg. Preparatory to entering 

 this, students must have passed through the gymnasium satisfactorily, and 

 must, with the sanction of Government, have passed through a preliminary 

 instruction of eight months, extending from September to Maj^, under a 

 revier, or district forester, approved and appointed by Government. They 

 must not be above 23 years of age, and they must possess means of support 

 throughout the jjcriod required for attendance at the forest school. Students 

 on finishing the curriculum at Asschaffensburg either enter on further prac- 

 tical training in the forest or in the forest office, or on attendance at a course 

 of lectures on State Economics at the University ; and they afterwards receive 

 appointments to Government employment in the order of the excellence of 

 the testimonials they have obtained. 



The College staff consists of a Director, who, together with the first 

 professor of Forest Science, has the rank of a Government and Circuit Forest 

 Councillor, and four other professors with the rank of forest masters, and a 

 I'evier forester, who acts as lecturer and as actuary clerk. 



The direction and the control of the School is vested in the Minister of 

 Finance and the Church and School Department of the Bureau of the 

 Minister of the Interior, and in subordination to them is the Director of the 

 School. 



In Austria there are numerous schools, academies, and colleges established 

 for supplying instruction and training in all that relates theoretically and 

 practically to the development of the agriculture and horticulture of the 

 country, and of manufactures connected with these ; and with these there are 

 three grades of Schools of Forestry, 'Niedere Forst ScJntle??, or Primary Forest 

 Schools ; Miitlcb Forst ScTiukn, or Middle Class Forest Schools ; and the Forst 

 Hoclb Scheie, or High School of Forestry. 



In 1858 Baron von Berg, Ober-forst-rath in Saxony, was applied to profes- 

 sionally to examine and report on the state of the forests, and the forest 

 management in Finland ; and he was thereafter applied to do the same in 

 Poland. In this country, Poland, at Nova Alexandria, there has been estab- 

 lished an important School of Agriculture, ranking with the universities of the 

 empire. It was founded with a view to prepare agriculturists and foresters 

 lor carrj'ing on their respective operations in accordance with the discoveries 

 of modern science. There are two divisions, one relating to agriculture, the 

 other to forest economy. The course of study extends over three years. 

 Students must have passed through a gymnasium, or some corresponding 

 public school. The fee charged is bO roubles per annum. And they obtain, 

 after passing satisfactorily the required examination at the close of the course, 

 a diploma., giving them rank as agriculturists or as foresters. 



From Poland we naturallr pass into Russia. 



In the Ustaff Laesnoi, or Forest Code of Eussia, I found numerous details 

 given of provision for the instruction of all employed in the management of 

 the Crown forests. 



In a report by M. Wereka, issued by the Ministry of the Imperial domains, 

 it is stated that for the training of young men for carrying out forest opera- 

 tions in the service of the Government, or of private proprietors, there exist 

 two special schools for superior instruction : the Agricultural and Forest 

 Institute at St. Petersburg, and the Agricultural and Forest Academy of 

 Pfetrowski, at Moscow. In these two establishments the course of studies 

 extends over three or four years ; and the students, having completed the 

 course, leave with the rank of Practical Student or Candidate. For the training 

 of the students in the practice of forestry, there are adjoining the academy of 

 Petrowski two forests, one of 267 hectares and another of 73 hectares. 

 Students at the Institute at St. Petersburg exercise themselves in practical 

 work in the forest of Lissino, distant about 70 versts from St. Petersburg, and 

 containing 30,000 hectares of forest, or 76,000 acres. 



