118 Tflfi FOREST LANDS OF FINLAND. 



A considerable time elapsed before any important 

 change was made. On the 15th May 1848 there were 

 issued Imperial Instructions relative to the management 

 of the Crown forests, along with regulations relative to 

 surveys to be made ; and in 1857 there were made new 

 provisional arrangements for the management of these 

 forests. 



The honour of originating the improved forest adminis- 

 tration has been assigned to Staatsrath C. W. Gylden, who 

 reckoned in 1851 that more than half of the whole area of 

 Finland, 5924*7 geographical square miles, was forest, 

 divided thus : 



In Nylands Lan, - - 141 '3 



Abo, - - - 274-2 



Tavastehus, - - 202 '9 



408" 3 



s, - 239 '7 



- - - 429'7 



Wasa, - - - 388-8 



Uleaborg, - 1488 '8 



Wyborg, 

 St. Michael 

 Kuopio, 



3573-7 



From the work of Dr Ignatius we learn, that to secure a 

 more economical and efficient management of the forests, 

 certain arrangements were made, and published with 

 authority on the 14th January 1851. Previous to this, 

 the regulation of forest operations lay with the department 

 in charge of the land surveying of the Grand Duchy. At 

 the time stated it was found that the limited number of 

 persons engaged in what may be called the forest service 

 seventeen in all could do but little, and it was deemed 

 necessary to introduce some new and different organisation 

 for the management of the forests. With this in view, 

 and with a view to the application to this of the general 

 principles of forest science, modified as might be required 

 by the condition of the country and its grand divisions, 

 Baron von Berg, Oberforst-rath or Oberforst-coun- 

 cillor of Saxony, the country of Hartig and of Cotta, 



