OKIG1JS OF THE SCHOOL OP FuKESTKY. 21 



The first year embraces the study of topography, geology, 

 cubic mensuration, and applied mathematics ; the second 

 year chemistry, mineralogy, botany, zoology, and geology; 

 the third year construction, sylviculture, forest economy, 

 political economy, and administrative law ; and of late 

 years a private preparatory school for students has been 

 organised and conducted. 



Students on leaving the school are attached, in the 

 character of candidates, to forest districts ; and it is only 

 after passing through this stage of training that they 

 receive appointments as Forest Engineers of the second 

 class. 



By His Excellency Senor Don Bernardo de la Torre 

 Rojas, founder of the school of Forest Engineers of Villa- 

 viciosa de Odon, there was published in January, 1880, 

 an autobiographical pamphlet entitled Ingenieros de 

 Monies Recaerdos de la Fundacion, in the concluding 

 note of which the author expresses his desire that it should 

 be considered as part of his last will and testament recom- 

 mending the treatise to the Forest Engineers that they 

 should see to the preservation of it, as a family memoir, 

 and as the last evidence he could give to them of his un- 

 changing affection. 



In the treatise itself, is declared, the philosophical senti- 

 ment adopted by him, and embodied in the institution to 

 the effect that productive work must be founded on know- 

 ledge saber es haxer, el que no hace unsabo. He traces 

 cursorally the history of the creation of the school, states 

 certain ruling principles which served as a guide to him in 

 what he did in founding it, and in giving to it the practical 

 character impressed upon it; lie comments on these, and 

 enlarges on the bearing of them on the creation and main- 

 tenance of an esprit de corps, and the importance of this, 

 together with self-negation, of high moral character and 

 conduct, of discipline, and of other fundamental require- 

 ments in every professional institution designed for the 

 service of the State, 



