School of Forestry at Evois, in Finland. 



By the Rev. J. C. EIlO^YN, LL.D. 



{Continued from page 551.) 



" Section 25.— It belongs to the duties of the director, in council with the 

 teacher and forest master, to make a programme of study, grounded on what 

 is laid down in sections 23 and 24, for each year, as indicative of the 

 duration of the course of instruction, and also a table of lessons 

 containing the teaching hours in the week, with a division for each branch of 

 science and teacher ; and this programme before the end of May must be sent 

 in to the forest bureau, which, besides examining it themselves, shall submit it 

 to the committee of the Imperial Senate entrusted with superintendence. And 

 it belongs to the director also to watch over the fulfilment of the programme a3 

 confirmed, and the course of the table of lessons, and in general to see that 

 the pupils obtain practical acquaintance with their subjects. 



" Section 26.— The pupils' progress in the diflferent sciences shall be judged 

 according to the following scale : veri/ distinguisliecl ; ivith recognised distinc- 

 tion; and goody by which characteristics the pupils' diligence and activity 

 shall be marked in their certificate of dismission. 



" Section 27.— Each year, at the end of the spring term, there shall take place 

 a public examination, under the control of the head director in the forest bureau, 

 or in the presence of one appointed by him, of the pupils of the institution ; in 

 regard to which examination a month previously an advertisement shall, by the 

 director's care, be inserted in the official gazette of the country ; and a special 

 notice of the examination shall be sent in to the director of the agricultural . 

 department of the imperial senate. In this examination, which should not extend 

 over chree day,-', questions shall be put to the pupils in all the theoretical and 

 practical subjects of instruction in which they have been instructed during the 

 course of the year, and the pupils ought also to give proof at the same time of 

 their acquaintance with, and their expertness in, the work of a practical forester. 



" Section 28.— The pupils in the second or higher class who wish to obtain a 

 certificate of dismission from the institution shall, before the public examina- 

 tion takes place, be subjected to examination by each teacher. 



" Section 29.— Immediately after the close of the examination the director and 

 teacher shall come together in the presence of the head director or his deputy 

 for the consideration and determination of the following matters :— 1st, what 

 character shall be inscribed on the certificate of each pupil ; 2nd, which pupil 

 shall go out of the institution either with a complete diploma as forest con- 

 ductor, or merely with certificates of study and progress ; 3rd, which pupils 

 can be removed from the fi.rst to the second class. The determinations come 

 to shall be inscribed in the matriculation register, and publicly read out to the 

 pupils. 



" Section 30.— The diploma for the degree of forest conductor shall be written 

 out and subscribed by the director and by both the teachers, and must contain 

 the results given as above of his examinations. To the pupil who wishes to 



