CHAPTER IV. 

 LIBRARY. 



TOGETHER with the liberal provision which has been 

 made in the School of Forestry in the Escurial, for the 

 prosecution of studies prescribed for candidates for 

 admission into the corps of Forest Engineers in Spain, 

 inclusive of an extensive museum, with apartments devoted 

 to the exhibition of implements and objects pertaining to 

 oach department of study, and appropriate laboratories, 

 rhero is a spacious library, richly furnished with works 

 treating of all the subjects embraced in the course of study. 

 From the work of Senor Castel on the foundation and 

 development of the school it appears that in 1877, when 

 that work was published, th;'re were in the library 2505 

 scientific and professional treatises, comprising 5349 

 volumes of letterpress, and '316 atlases of plates, diagrams, 

 and maps, pertaining to these works. 



In these works there are supplied the means of prosecuting 

 the study of any or all of the subjects brought under the 

 consideration of the student in the class, or otherwise 

 engaging his thoughts 



659 treated of Mathematical Science- ; 

 231 of Physics ; 

 1189 of NaWal History ; 

 1<S2 ot Ethics and Politics ; 



71 of Literature and Language; 



S3 of History and Geography ; 



24 of Arts and Manufactures; and 



66 were Encyclopaedias or classed as Miscellanies. 



The numbers have been increased since then, and every 

 branch of study is well represented, 



