lo FORESTRY IN SPAIK. 



up new paths in forest study. For me it is impossible, 

 nor does space permit me, to produce a chronological and 

 critical narrative of the principal phases through which the 

 newborn forest science passed in its evolution and succes- 

 sive development ; fresh in the memory of many in Spain 

 must be the remarkable articles written under the title, 

 Sistemas Forestates, by*the erudite Forest Engineer, His 

 Excellency Sr. D. Agustin Pascual, the first Spanish 

 writer on dasanomy, and formerly professor in our School 

 of Forestry, to whom it is enough that I thus refer while 

 passing on to state succinctly the new form, and report 

 the multiplication and general organisation of forestal 

 schools which occurred in Germany and in some other 

 countries in Europe. 



' The primary organisation of the schools founded in 

 Ilsenberg, Wernigerode, Lauterberg, Hungen, Zillbach, 

 Walterhausen, Rottenhaus, Castell, &c., in the period from 

 1766 to 1805, was that of several other private centres of 

 instruction, which died out with their founders, or 

 suffered the fate which befell these in the course of their 

 existence. All these made themselves remarkable by the 

 great impulse and development which they gave to the 

 diffusion of forest science, and by their having raised up 

 a numerous and distinguished body of men to assist and 

 direct at a later time the work of bringing into order the 

 forests of the districts in which they were situated. There 

 stands out prominently amongst all these the school 

 founded by Gotta. He, being charged with the reduction 

 to an orderly condition of the forest of Fishbach, spent 

 some years in the execution of this work, during 

 these years giving theoretic and practical instruction to 

 the young men who assisted him there : thus was insti^ 

 tuted the new centre of forestal instruction of Zillbach. 

 Such reputation was acquired by this establishment of 

 modern times, that in 1795 there was .granted to it a sub- 

 vention from the State, by means which Cotta was enabled 

 considerably to augment the means available then for the 

 prosecution of study. In 1810 Cotta was appointed 



