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building adequate to its requirements, and it offered to 

 the school certain facilities for the practical study of science, 

 in which respect the town of the Escurial compared 

 advantageously with that of Villaviciosa, which were in- 

 creased by the greater facility for communicating with 

 Madrid. To such an extent was this the case that amongst 

 the opinions expressed by parties best qualified to form a 

 judgment in regard to the expediency of the removal of the 

 school from the one place to the other, there appears an 

 approval expressed by the founder of the School of Forestry, 

 His Excellency Senor D. Bernardo de la Torre Rojas, who, 

 after the removal, visiting what he always called his dear 

 school, declared with the utmost cordiality the satisfaction 

 which he felt in seeing it located in a situation more 

 appropriate to the requirements of the institution. 



' The alterations, rapidly executed with remarkable 

 skill under the direction of Professor Don Ignatio Macias 

 allowed of the transference of the school during the 

 vacation at the end of 1870, and the consequent opening 

 of the classes in the new premises on the 7th of January, 

 1871, and thus, in so much that it coincided with the decree 

 of the 24th October in the preceding year, may be said to 

 have completed the second period, and commenced the 

 current period of instruction in this school.' 



In the transferred school the previously existing regula- 

 tions continued in force for years, being only modified by 

 some slight alteration in the entrances and examinations 

 made by Royal order of 25th May, 1877 ; and while it had 

 been the case that there were two classes of students, one 

 resident within the school designated Interior, the other 

 being outside designated Exterior, but in every other re.spect 

 enjoying the same advantages, privileges, an 1 status, this 

 was altered, and only one class was now recognised the 

 Interior, though, in consequence of the removal of the 

 school to the Escurial, while the designation was retained 

 all the students lived outside the school. 



