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de la Flora Espannola Characters of the Spanish Flora. 

 A paper read at a Conference held in the Athenaeum, 

 Madrid, on the llth March in that year. 



And in the Revista de Monies, or Forestry Review, for 

 January, 1881, appeared the first of a series of papers by 

 him on Cypress like plants, their habits and their homes. 



Thus has been made* and is being made, provision for aid 

 in the prosecution by students in the School of Forestry, 

 of the studies in Applied Botany. 



Of the ferns from the Philippine Islands in the Museum, 

 there is a descriptive catalogue by Senor Laguna ; and by 

 the same author a description of an oak found only in 

 these Islands. There is a memoir on the productions of 

 the forests of the Philippine Islands, by Senor D. Ramon 

 Jordana y Morera, Chief of the first-class of the Corps of 

 Forest Engineers; and in 1885 was published a large 

 volume by the same author, Bosquetjo Geografico e Historico- 

 Xatural des Archipielago Filipino A Geographical and 

 Natural Bistory Sketch of the Philippine Archepelago 

 with additional notices of the productions of the forests, of 

 which for many years he had been inspector; and a 

 systematically arranged catalogue of the lignous forest and 

 cultivated plants, collected in the forests of Manilla by 

 Forest Engineer D. Sebastian Vidal y Soler, with notices 

 of localities in which each had been found a work of 

 merit; and thus are the students supplied with works of 

 reference in regard to all the forest products of the 

 Philippines stored in the museum of the school. 



Sub- Section 4. Sylviculture. 



Sylviculture on the Continent corresponds to arboriculture 

 in Britain. The difference is mainly this: the former 

 regards the wood or furest as the object with which it has 

 to deal ; the latter looks to the trees individually, whether 

 growing solitary or in a mass of greater or less extent, as 

 the subject of its consideration. There is more in this 

 difference than may at first be supposed; but it may be 



