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lettino Forestall, edited by the Director, and published in Florence, 

 are the official organs of the Forest School. Syllabuses of lectures 

 and memoirs by the different professors printed in these are used 

 as text-books by the pupils, along with the manuals employed in 

 the forest academies of Miinden and Tharand in Germany, and of 

 Nancy in France. 



Admission of Pupils. — The number of pupils admissible to the 

 institution is 60 ; of these, 40 are regular pupils, from all parts 

 of Italy, who aspire to a career in the Government Forest Service, 

 and private pupils, the number of whom is not fixed. Each pupil 

 must present a certificate of being over 18 and under 22 years of 

 age ; a second, of good conduct ; and a third, of good health and 

 strong constitution. Besides this, every candidate for admission 

 must find security for the payment of 700 lires annually for three 

 years for board, and 200 lires for uniform. The board is paid 

 half-yearly, in May and November. The regular pupils are re- 

 quired to undergo a preliminary examination in the language and 

 history of Italy, geography, natural history, arithmetic, algebra, 

 geometry, physics, and chemistry. 



The pupils assemble at six a.m. in summer, and at seven in 

 winter. Breakfast is served at eleven, and dinner at six p.m., 

 and at nine all are required to be in the institution, and to retire 

 to their own rooms. The hours of instruction are, with some 

 little deviation, from seven to eleven a.m., and from one to six p.m. 

 The inmates of the institution are called together by the sound of 

 a trumpet. When at Yallombrosa the senior pupils have separate 

 apartments, but at Paterno they occupy a common dormitory. 

 There is a suitable room in which invalids are located, and a store 

 of medicines. 



Discipline. — The pupils cannot leave the precincts without the 

 written permit of the Director. They wear the uniform of the in- 

 stitution, which is that of a forest guard, with oak twigs of gold 

 lace on the collar and cap. Insubordination is punished according 

 to its degree, by admonition of the Director, by confinement, or by 

 expulsion, under sanction of the Minister of Agriculture. 



The Course of Instruction is as follows : 



First Year. 



Mathematics, including Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, and Trigono- 

 metry. 

 Chemistry. — Organic and Inorganic, with experiments. 



