THE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY IN THE ESCURIAL. 3f> 



are 1. The general conditions of a good construction, and 

 the materials employed, including an examination of the 

 qualities, extraction, preparation, and fabrication of these 

 materials. 2. Foundations, and operations relative to the 

 establishment of these in different cases ; sinking wells j 

 raising piers. 3. Construction of walls, partitions, and 

 roof's. 4. Stables, sheds, bridges. .5. Hydraulic works : 

 tracing and locating confining walls and dykes ; arrange- 

 ment and construction of leading canals, and of canals of 

 derivation. 0. Application of principles of construction to 

 seed-drying stores, and stores of timber and firewood, pitch 

 kilns, and saw-pits or saw-mills. 7. Road-making : high- 

 ways, foiest wood tracks, and forest bridges. 



Tn the studies of the third year are comprised 

 Mineralogy and Applied Geology, Applied Botany, 

 Applied Zoology, and Sylviculture. 



The programme of study in Applied Geology comprises 

 1. Definitions and divisions of geology, and specifications 

 of its relations to the other sciences, and especially to 

 sylviculture. 2. General geography, which treats of 

 mountains, and in particular the geography of Spain. 3. 

 Physical geography. 4. Petrography, or natural history 

 of rocks and stones ; origin of rocks, their characteristics 

 and analytical decomposition, >. Natural decomposition 

 of rocks, nature and forestal conditions of the land thus 

 produced. C. Geologic periods, natural history of stratifi- 

 cation. 7. Description of the different geognostic forma- 

 tions which constitute the terrestrial crust, and their 

 forestal applications. 8. General notions of paleontology, 

 and description of the principal fossils characteristic of 

 each formation. 



Instruction in what is designated Applied Mineralogy 

 comprises 1. Fundamental ideas, and the characters and 

 chemical and physical properties of minerals. 2. Chrystalo- 

 graphy, systematic mineralogy, different classifications of 

 minerals. 3. Analysis of minerals. 4. Description of the 

 more important kinds of minerals, with special attention 



