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together with the servants of the Institute, have free 

 lodgings and a right to graze the first three two cows 

 each, and the last one cow each. Besides this, the Director, 

 Teacher, and Forest-Master shall have the use of a tunn- 

 land in the neighbourhood of the Institute, and the 

 servants a mark for potato ground. If any of these 

 persons wish further to rent property appropriated to the 

 Institute, they will obtain the same by applying to the 

 Imperial Senate, and paying money in to the chest of the 

 Institution.' 



In reply to inquiries which I addressed to Dr 

 Blomqvist, the Director of the Institution, some years ago, 

 he wrote to me as follows : 



' Our Institution at Evois is by much too limited and 

 inconsiderable to be taken as a pattern for any other 

 place. It was reorganised, in 1874, so as to cost as little 

 as possible. The number of teachers was then reduced. 

 But this I look upon as a mere temporary arrangement, 

 and therefore I may state at the outset that it is the 

 original organisation adopted in 1860, when the Institution 

 was founded, to which I refer in the following state- 

 ment. 



1 At that time there was a Director, who was also a 

 teacher, and three other teachers, one for forest science, 

 one for natural history and chemistry, and one for mathe- 

 matics; a Forest- Master or Forester, who also was a teacher, 

 and a Drawing- Master, who was also secretary and librarian 

 in all six teachers. 



' The subjects on which instruction was given at that 

 time were then, as now 



' I. Forest sciences : Wald-bau [sylviculture], Forst-taxa- 

 tion [forest management and regulation of the quantity 

 of forest produce to be obtained], Forst-technicologie [tech- 

 nical properties of different kinds of wood, practical felling 

 of trees, treatment of the timber mechanically and chemi- 

 cally, transport of the same by land and water, &c., &i], 



