IS FORESTRY IN SPAIN. 



modified the programme of study. Ou the 31st October 

 iu the following year (1859), arrangements were made for 

 the establishment of a school of practical forestry, in 

 which instruction might be given in forest work under the 

 direction of a forest engineer ; and these were carried out 

 in the institution of such a school by Royal order of the 

 9th December of thafr year, in the forest of Espiuar, a 

 village in the Province of Segovia 



About the same time, in consequence of the flourishing 

 condition of the School of Forestry at Villa viciosa, a 

 scheme was formed for raising still higher the character of 

 that school by increasing the number of sciences in which 

 instruction should be given there to candidates for appoint- 

 ments as forest engineers, so as to make it equal to other 

 special schools of the highest estimation in the country 

 if riot also to the most distinguished schools of forestry in 

 other lands. This was carried into effect in accordance 

 with a Royal decree of 18th May, 1862; and at the same 

 time the school ot practical forestry at Espinar was given 

 up, after a year's experience, under the direction of the 

 Forest Engineer-in-Chief in charge of the service in the 

 Province. 



In no other respect was the course of study greatly 

 changed, but this has been considered as marking the 

 close of the first, and the commencement of the second 

 stage in the development of the school. 



In that first stage of this development very great im- 

 portance was attached, and not improperly, to training in 

 practical work in the forests. In the second stage now 

 commenced, without detriment to such practical work, 

 more attention than had previously been given was given 

 to education, and instruction, and study, during the school 

 session, and practical training was prosecuted away from 

 the school in forest districts; and at this time the several 

 museums attached to the school received great additions : 

 they then entered upon that development which has secured 

 for them the full equipment which they have now attained 



