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course of instruction followed in the school; and shall 

 embody in a memoir the results of his observation, which, 

 having been submitted to the council of the school, shall 

 be transmitted by them to the Minister de Fomento. And 

 according to article 30 of the Beglamenta of the school, 

 when the professors prepare memoirs, lessons, or relative 

 treatises, on matters comprised in the course of instruction, 

 or in the programme of preliminary examination, they are 

 entitled to special grants in remuneration on a proposal 

 to that effect of the Junta Facultative of the corps, on the 

 previous report of the professors. The amount of the 

 remuneration is determined by the Government. 



Such a tour of observation was made in 1864, by Royal 

 order of the King of Spain, by Sr. Don Maxima Laguna y 

 Villanueva, Forest Engineer in Chief, and Professor in the 

 School of Forestry in the Escurial. The report made by 

 him, published in 1866, by Royal order, treats of the 

 instruction in forest science and practical forestry in 

 Austria in the schools and academies of Mariabrunn, 

 Schemnitz, Weiswasser, Ausee, and Kreul, comparing it 

 with that given in Villaviciosa in Spain ; and suggesting 

 certain modifications in this deemed likely to be useful. 

 It discusses also the forest service in Austria, in Bohemia, 

 in Hungary, and in Saxony, together with the instruction in 

 forestry given in Russia, and in the School of Practical 

 Forestry in Lissino, and in those of the Steppes; and the 

 general administration of forests in Russia. 



Senor D. Carlos Castel y Clemente, Commander of the 

 Order of Isabel la Catholica, and Chief of the Second 

 Class of the Corps of Forest Engineers, made a tour 

 through Norway and Sweden, and by Royal order the 

 observations submitted by him to the Facultative Junta, or 

 Council of the Corps, were printed in an edition of 600 

 copies, under the title ' Memoria sobre las condiciones 

 naturales y produccion Agricola y Forestal de la Peninsula 

 Escandinavia.' Under successive chapters there are 

 detailed the geographic condition of the Scandinavian 



