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of every kind ; forest ordenacion, or partition and exploita- 

 tion on scientific principles ; forest industries ; the adminis- 

 tration of law ; political economy ; and drawing. 



This summary, however, can convey to one unacquainted 

 with the programmes of studies followed at such schools 

 a very inadequate conception of what is comprised under 

 the heads stated as has been intimated. 



In order to gain admittance to the school, the applicant 

 must be accredited by certificates or diplomas of having 

 passed an academic examination in the following subjects 

 Spanish grammar, Latin grammar, geography, and the 

 general and detailed history of Spain ; and he is admitted, 

 after passing with approval, an examination in the school 

 on the elements of natural history, the elements of the 

 theory of mechanics, descriptive geometry and its applica- 

 tion to projections and to perspective, physics, chemistry, 

 lineal, topographical, and landscape drawing, and his 

 knowledge of the French and German languages. 



The attainments made in the latter preparatory 

 studies are determined by personal examination at the 

 school. Every year there are issued programmes specifying 

 the subjects on which applicants fur admission must be 

 prepared to be examined. According to the programme for 

 the year 1877, the only one I happen to have at command, 

 the preliminary entrance examination through which 

 applicants have to pass embrace amongst others the follow- 

 ing subjects: Theory of mechanics, the general principles of 

 statics, and their application to the determination of the 

 centre of gravity ; the general principles of dynamics, 

 including inertia, momentum, reaction, vital force, move- 

 ments of points and movements of bodies under varied 

 conditions, and the establishment of equilibrium. De- 

 scriptive geometry : its application to projections and 

 perspective, embracing points, straight lines, circles, and 

 planes, triangles, polyhedrons, sections and intersections of 

 these, tangents, cylinders, cones., lines of revolution, 

 involution, plane and conic sections, the projection of 



