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bating them ; to determine the value of forest-litter upon 

 the growth of trees; to test the relative value of forest 

 implements; to devise new methods of obtaining forest 

 products, and to find new uses for the same ; in short, they 

 are intended to furnish the means by which to increase 

 the wealth of the owners of forests, and thus that of the 

 entire country, and t?> furnish legislative bodies with the 

 foundation necessary for a just taxation of forests, and for 

 a wise and beneficient code of forest-laws.' 



These stations are State institutions, connected with 

 schools of Forestry. 



Tn Prussia, with the Forest Academy at Eberswalde. 



In Bavaria^ with the University at Munich. 



In Saxony, with the Forest Academy at Tharandt. 



In Wurtemberg, with the University of Tubingen. 



In Badon, with the Poletichnicum at Carlsruhe. 



In Thuriugia, with the School of Forestry at Eisenach. 



In Hesse, with the University of Giessen. 



A. desire was felt by eUves of the School of Forestry in 

 Spain that they should be enabled to join the union, and 

 take part in the prosecution of observation and experiment; 

 and that to them should be allotted observations connected 

 with meteorology and climatology : and in 1882 was 

 published, under the title Estacion Meteor ologica- For estal 

 de San lldefon*a a project for the creation of a Meteoro- 

 logical -Forestal Station in San Ildefonsa which had been 

 presented to the Minister de Fomenta in the year 1874, 

 by the Commissioners entrusted with arrangements for 

 the systematic management of the forests of Balsain, a 

 royal appenage in the vicinity of Madrid, lying between 

 that city and Guadalajara. Having stated and detailed 

 the origin of the union, the writers add : ' Since Septem- 

 ber, 1872, there have been conformed and brought into 

 reciprocal communication the stations of Prussia, with 

 thoso of Wurtemberg, Baden, Hesse, Bavaria, Saxony, and 



