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have communicated these being communicated to the 

 authorities by the secretaries, in order to prevent the 

 occurrence of contradictory arrangements relative to the 

 same affairs being sent by two or more ministries, as has 

 repeatedly occurred in some remote countries when these 

 conflicting orders were followed with fatal effect, as well 

 in respect to the service as in respect to the prestige of 

 the government at the capital, which it is of much import- 

 ance to maintain in these/ 



The citation is a long one ; but the matter may prove 

 not without interest to some of my readers while it 

 supplies at once an illustration of the comprehensiveness 

 of the course of study followed in the School of Forest 

 Engineers in Spain, and the exhaustive character of the 

 studies. 



SECTION 7. GENERAL FORESTAL LITERATURE. 



The accounts given under preceding headings of 

 different works were designed simply to supply some 

 illustration of the kind of provision made for students in 

 the School of Forest Engineers prosecuting their studies 

 in each department of instruction embraced in the 

 programme, being accounts of books taken almost at 

 random in so far as this use of them was concerned. 

 They supply an average, not a special indication of what is 

 provided; and the provision is much more copious than 

 these citations alone would indicate. Mention has been 

 made of the number of books in the library of the school 

 being, according to information in my possession when 

 previous sheets were sent to press, being 5665 ; 

 from information since communicated to me I learn that 

 they now number upwards of 7000. 



In an appendix to an Escalaf6n of the Corps of Forest 

 Engineers which appeared in the Revista de Monies, on the 

 1st July this year, 1886, there is given the following list 



