ORIGIN OF tfORESt ENGINEERS IN SPAIN. 1 



were issued special decrees on the 30tli April and on the 1st 

 May, 1835. It was said in Art. 7 of the former : 

 ' There shall be created in the corps of the civil 

 engineers other two bodies (besides those of roads 

 and of mines), geographic engineers and woodland forest 

 engineers, so soon as the formation of primary schools of 

 both shall admit of their being established.' The second 

 postpones till the 1st of October following the creation of 

 a special school for forest or woodland engineers, under 

 the direction of the inspector of forests, Don Sandalio de 

 Arices ; and in Art. 7 it says : ' When it shall 

 be the case that there shall be created a corps of wood- 

 land or forest engineers, the director of the school shall 

 be assigned rank and position in this, with due considera- 

 tion of the services which up to that time he may have 

 rendered.' 



The civil war, and other matters of greater importance 

 demanding attention, prevented the realising of this 

 patriotic purpose at this time. But subsequently both 

 purposes were carried out ; and in studying the general 

 question of forestry in Spain we find that the develop- 

 ment of the School of Forestry, La Escuela especial de 

 Ingenieros de Mantes, and that of the corps of forest 

 engineers, Cuerpo de Ingenieros de Monies, were con- 

 current, each reacting upon the other, the instruction and 

 training received in the school qualifying the members of 

 the corps to make a progressive advance in the discharge 

 of their professional functions, and this making new 

 demands on the teachers of aspirants for such appoint- 

 ments. Thus, in marked parallelism, may be observed what 

 is stated in regard to the development of the School of 

 Forestry in a work by Sr. Don Carlos Castel y Clemente, 

 entitled Noticia Sobre la Fundacion y Desarrollo de la 

 Escuela Especial de Ingenieros de Monies : Notice of the 

 Foundation and Development of the Special School of 

 Forest Engineers, and in the arguments of the treatise by 

 Sr. D. Francesco Goercia Marti no, entitled Les Monies 

 y el Caerpo de Ingenieros en los tiortes Constituents. 



