704 The Journal of Forestry. 



" Payments in the Evois Forest Institute, as laid down by His Imperial 

 Majesty :-*■ 



rinnish Marks. 

 Director's salary ... ... ... ... ... ... 3,600 



Board wages ... ... ... ... ... ... 1,600 



Allowance for horse ... ... ... ... ... 400 



5,600 



Teacher's salary 2,000 



Board wages ... .. ... ... ... ... 1,000 



Allowance for copying ... ... ... ... ... 200 



3,200 



Forest master's wages in Evois and Wesijako Crown 

 parks, for assistance in the instruction of the 



institute 1,000 



Allowance for a boy and two firemen, estimated at ... 1,200 



Light, writing materials, books, newspapers, furni- 

 ture, and inventories, estimated at ... ... 1,000 



Cutting of wood ... ... ... ... ... 1,200 



Support of buildings ... ... ... . . ... 1,5C0 



Total 14,700 



"iJeHiarZ.-.— The director, teacher, and forest master, together with the 

 servants of the institute, have free lodging and the right to graze — the first 

 three two cows each, and the last one cow each. Besides this, the director, 

 teacher, and forest master shall have the use of a tunneland in the neighbour- 

 hood of the institute, and the servants a mark for potato ground. If any of 

 these persons wish further to rent property appropriated to the institute, they 

 will obtain the same by applying to the Imperial Senate, and paying money 

 into the cash of the institution." 



ISTo one of my correspondents on the Continent has manifested a 

 more lively interest in the plea Avhich has been urged for the 

 creation of a School of Forestry in connection with the Arboretum 

 in Edinburgh than has Professor Blomqvist, Director of the Forest 

 Institute at Evois. In one letter he wrote, — 



" The day before yesterday I had the pleasure to receive by post your little 

 volume entitled ' The Schools of Forestry in Europe.' I have perused it with 

 much interest, and I feel convinced that you have hit the nail on the head. It 

 is beyond all doubt of the greatest importance for forests throughout the 

 world that your suggestion of the creation of a School of Forestry in con- 

 nection with the Arboretum in Edinburgh, or some similar scheme, should be 

 realized, and on my part I wish you complete success. The matter is, more- 

 over, of such manifest necessity, that sooner or later some such measure must 

 be carried into effect. So soon as this shall be the case I hope to be informed 

 of it. Meanwhile I wish you health and strength for the energetic efforts 

 which may be required to bring the seedling to maturity." 



In another letter he wrote still more strongly of the world-wide 

 benefit to be expected from the study of Forest Science in all its 



