156 FORESTRY IN SPAIN. 



Peninsula, embracing: 1. The situation, boundaries, and 

 area ; the geography, and the hydrography of the land. 



2. Factors of production : the soil, climate, and people. 



3. The agricultural production, with details of the different 

 botanic regions, and of agriculture. 4. The forests, 

 comprising the mode of tenure by which they are held, 

 and the condition and products of the forests. 5. Forest 

 industries, embracing the transport and sawing up of tim- 

 ber ; the fabrication of wood pulp ; of charcoal, and of 

 lucifer matches ; and other products of the forests. 



On the occasion of the International Exhibition in 

 Philadelphia being held in Pennsylvania, again Senor Don 

 Jose Jordana y Morera, Chief in the Corps of Forest 

 Engineers, author of the 'Catalogue Raisonne of Spanish 

 Works on Forest Science/ of which mention has been 

 made, was sent as a commissioner and director of the 

 agricultural department of Spanish exhibits, and Senor 

 Don Sebastian Vidal y Soler, Chief in the Corps of Forest 

 Engineers in the Phillipine Islands, and official in the 

 order of the royal crown of Prussia, as commissioner from 

 the Minister of foreign affairs, and by them a report was 

 made under the title of ' Apuntes Sobre los Montes, 

 y la Agricultura Norde- Americana, Memoria Elevada al 

 Exmo. Sr. Ministro de Fomento' Notes on the Forests 

 and Agriculture of North America : a Memoir submitted to 

 the Minister of Agriculture, Public Works, Trade, and 

 Commerce which was published in 'El Tiempo/ and in 

 the ' Boletin Oh'cial del Ministerio de la Ultramar' Foreign 

 affairs ; and subsequently reprinted and published for 

 general use. 



In this there are given reports of the boundaries, area, 

 orography, hydrography, geology, geognosy, temperature, 

 and rainfall of the territory of the United States ; which is 

 followed by a lengthened review of the forestal condition 

 of the country throughout its extent, based on data obtained 

 from the work bv Professor Brewer of Yale College, New- 

 haven, and the statistical atlas of General Walker, It 



