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which are still in force. In 1874 a lecturer on forest road con- 
struction, plan drawing, etc., was appointed, which brings the staff 
of teachers nearly up to its present strength. The establishment of 
a station for fish-breeding trials was brought about in 1877, when 
the completion of the various provisions for instruction may be 
said to have been accomplished. ‘The increase in the number of 
students has been very gradual, the smallest number that attended 
during any session being three years after its removal from Berlin, 
when only twenty-one were attending the winter session of 1833. 
For the first ten years the average number for each session was 
only thirty-three, or five less than the attendance during the first 
one. During the next ten years the average for the whole time 
amounted to fifty-seven. At the end of 1860 it was seventy-six. 
The end of the next decade showed a diminution to fifty-five, these 
years being the period in which the Forest School at Munden was 
opened, resulting in the removal of many students from Eberswalde 
to that place. At the end of 1880 there were eighty-three attend- 
ing, and at the present time one hundred and twenty (of whom 
thirteen are foreigners), or an increase of about eighty students 
since its commencement in 1830.” The above figures may not be 
of great interest in themselves, but they serve to show what has 
been gradually built up from a small beginning, and may throw a 
little light on the long-disputed question regarding the feasibility of 
a Scottish school of forestry. 
The present academy, finished in 1876, is a handsome red _ brick 
structure three storeys in height, having a frontage of 110 feet 
and a width of 85 feet. It stands immediately outside the old 
town, and in front of it, on the opposite side of the road, is a small 
piece of ground, laid out with flower-beds and shrubs, which is 
under the charge of the director. The old buildings (now the 
residence of the director, and also containing the library and 
bureau) stand a few yards to the left of it, while a church occupies 
the ground to the right, so that no incongruous erections are 
possible. ‘The entrance is in the form of a portico, supported by 
two brick columns, to the right and left of which are the rooms 
occupied by the ground-oflicer and laboratory attendant, the remain- 
ing portion of the basement being occupied by wood and coal stores, 
lumber rooms, ete. A broad flight of stone steps leads up to the 
entrance hall, in which notices of excursions, lectures, etc., are 
posted up in a frame provided for the purpose. On this floor are 
the reading-room for the students, lecture-room for chemistry and 
