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Baden, the school of forestry is combined with a college of engineers 

 in the Polytechnicum of that city. 



One advantage of such combinations is that many subjects may 

 be studied by students of different faculties under the same teacher, 

 as is done in the arts classes of our Scottish universities by students 

 contemplating the study of theology, of medicine, or of law ; and 

 one staff of instructors thus suffices for the whole, with only 

 special instructors for special subjects of study pertaining to 

 the different professional departments, who conduct their students 

 through these in the same sessions in which they prosecute the 

 studies required of all. In Spain the economical application of 

 teaching power in the school of forestry in the Escurial is secured 

 by an arrangement similar in some respects to that adopted in the 

 theological colleges of the United Presbyterian Church and the 

 Free Church in Scotland, but with a slight difference : candidates 

 for admission to the school of forestry in the Escurial must pass 

 an entrance examination, corresponding to the examination for the 

 degree of Master of Arts in the universities of Scotland ; but, con- 

 trary to the usage of ecclesiastical bodies to which I have referred, 

 which requires evidence of the entrant student having studied at 

 a university the subjects upon which he is examined, no inquiry 

 is required as to how or where the candidate for admission to the 

 school of forestry in the Escurial had acquired the information 

 tested by the examination. There are many advantages found to 

 be connected with the location of a school of forestry in the 

 vicinity of a forest, in which from time to time illustrations of 

 what is advanced in the class-room may be found. But this is 

 not indispensable to the successful teaching of forestry. It may 

 be said that one-half of the schools of forestry are not so situated, 

 and, in those which are so, the students are taken to see actual 

 forest operations at a distance. The students at the Laesnoi 

 Corps, St Petersburg, are taken to Lissino, seventy versts, or nearly 

 fifty miles distant. Those at Nancy, in France, are taken to study 

 forest work in the oak forests of Central France, in the coniferous 

 forests of the Vosges and the Jura, and in the perimetres of 

 reboissemmt and gazonnement on the Alps. And the students at 

 Aschaffenbixrg, in Bavaria, ai'e taken, as has been stated, to the 

 Black Forest, to the forests on the Rhine, and to the pine and fir 

 forests of France. I cite only cases on which I have reported, 

 but there are others in which advantage is taken of the facilities 

 afforded by railways for taking students to study practical forestry 



