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but not yet enjoying the rights of a State. In European 

 Russia the whole country is divided into Governments, 

 but in Siberia there are both Governors and Governor- 

 Generals. Subject to the Governor-Generals, each oblast 

 has its Governor and its capital, which ranks as a Govern- 

 ment town. The oblast again is divided into uyzeds, each 

 of which has its principal town, over which presides 

 an Ispravnick; the uyzeds are divided into vollosts ; and 

 vollosts into villages with a church (sello), or hamlets 

 (derevnia), if there be none. The chief man of a vollost is a 

 Zasidatil ; the chief man of a village is a Starosta, or 

 alderman. It is alleged that an oblast is a territory the 

 government of which is still being developed, while in a 

 Government the government is determinate, the civil and 

 military organisations being distinct. Now Finland is not 

 such a province as is a Siberian oblast; and thus does 

 importance attach to the distinction now made. 



I further learn that the account I have given (p. 163) of 

 the staff of teachers at the School of Forestry at Evois 

 would require to be altered to make it correctly descrip- 

 tive of the existing state of that Institution, and it was 

 only in the editing of the first regulation of that Institute 

 that Dr. Blomqvist acted as secretary to Mr Gylden, 

 which requires a slight modification of a statement made 

 on page 167. 



In connection with the notice (p. 226) of Baron Rabbi 

 Wrede having been Chief of the Administration of Forests 

 from 1864 to 1870, it might have been stated that he was 

 in 1859 appointed adjoint ordinaire to Mr Gylden in that 

 office, and succeeded him as Chief (Forst styreken) in 

 1864, when that office was separated from the Department 

 of Surveying (Landmateristyrelseri), which office he held 



