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of operations deemed suitable for a specified forest, which 

 students at Evois are required to prepare, is prepared in 

 view of this three-fold object, and the surveys, charts, 

 inventories, and estimates for which information is col- 

 lected in the forest in question during the autumn, are all 

 prepared as data required for this plan of exploitation and 

 treatment. And it may be assumed that forest reviers which 

 have been for years under the management of Foresters 

 or Forest-Masters so trained must be in an improved 

 condition. 



The number of students has increased from 6 to 24 ; 

 the students designed for Forest- Wardens are at present 

 14 in number, but they will shortly be increased to 

 24. 



The first Director of the School of Forestry at Evois was 

 Colonel Alexander de Forselles, who may be said to have 

 founded the school : but the first regulations were drawn 

 out by Staats-rath C. W. Gyldens, and by him Dr A. G. 

 Blomqvist, the present Director of the school, was appointed 

 secretary and adviser. Till 1870 the Directorship of the 

 Institute was held by Colonel Forselles, and Dr Blomqvist 

 was lecturer on forest science. In that year Colonel 

 Forselles was appointed Chief of the forest department of 

 Finland, Cepverdirektor foer Forstvoesendet. Previous to 

 his appointment as Director of the Institute be was distin- 

 guished as a military engineer. He was a man of great 

 inventive powers and administrative faculty, and his name 

 became associated with an instrument he constructed for 

 measuring the height of trees, which was based on a new 

 idea. The present staff of instructors is composed of : 

 Dr A. G. Blomqvist, Director; Magister J. E. Furuhjelm, 

 instructor in physical science ; M. C. A. J. Nybers, 

 instructor in geodesy, agriculture, and drawing ; M. H. 

 Hackstedt, instructor in mathematics, engineering, and 

 forest science ; Forest-Master A. B. Heikel, instructor 

 in the school for Forest- Wardens ; in carpentry and 

 manipulation of wood in the workshops of the guards 

 and in the forests, Instructor K. Oksanen. 



