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Primativo Artigas, Ingeniero Jefe de Monies, y Professor 

 de Selvicultura, Meteorologia y Cliniatologia de la 

 Escuela Especial de Ramo. Publicata con Authorizacion 

 Ofirial' Memoir relative to the Excursions made by the 

 Students of the third year of the School of Forest 

 Engineers to the public forests, dunes, and cork-tree woods 

 of Gerona, in the spring of 1882 written by Don Primitive 

 Artigas, Chief in the Corps of Forest Engineers, and 

 Professor of Sylviculture, Meteorology, and Climatology 

 in the School of Forestry, and published with official 

 authority. 



The report of the tour of observation shows such tours 

 to be made not in a desultory manner, but with some 

 special object to be accomplished, as in this case in fulfil- 

 ment of a commission given to the Professor, with authority 

 to take students with him to see what he sees, and learn 

 from him what he may consider it of importance that they 

 should know. The tour was made by an order of the 

 Minister of the State, issued on 8th June, 1882, in fulfil- 

 ment of arrangements sanctioned by Royal order in the 

 May of the preceding year. It was submitted by the 

 Professor to the Council of the School of Forestry, with 

 explanatory statements, and on their recommendation it 

 was published at the expense of the State. 



The report, interesting to us chiefly as illustrative of the 

 kinds of objects to which the attention of the students 

 was directed, comprises accounts of Barcelona, of the 

 large manufactory of land and naval engines there, the 

 carpet manufactory, the saw mills, the ships and shipping, 

 and the public park with lists of trees, shrubs, and 

 interesting herbs, indigenous and exotic, seen there ; of the 

 public forest of the province of Gerona; of an inundation 

 which had occurred, and the need there was for an increase 

 in the staff of officials employed. Of Gerona itself accounts 

 are given of the saw mills; of the manufacture of paper 

 pulp ; oi the public park, and trees and plants seen there ; 

 the geology of the district ; the institution of secondary 

 education j and the Archaeological Museum. There are next 



