166 FORESTRY IN SPAIN'. 



they draw as members of the Corps of Forest Engineers, 

 which varies with their rank in the service, hence it is 

 designated gratificacion, allowance, or gratuity. 



The instruction is given (1) by oral lectures and lessons 

 in drawing by the professors ; (2) by written exercises, 

 calculations, and analyses on the subjects embraced by 

 these lectures; (3) by the detailed study of the animals, 

 rocks, plants, and forest products preserved in the 

 collections and adjuncts of the establishment ; (4) by the 

 practice of topography, land surveying, the study of natural 

 history and orography in the field ; (5) by excursions to 

 the plantations and mountains. 



The school sessions extend, with specified holidays, from 

 the 1st of October of one year to the 31st of May in the 

 year following. Field exercises are included in this session, 

 but according to what may be required in different classes 

 thee may be extended over the months of June, July, and 

 August. 



The material provisions for study, as has been intimated, 

 consist of the buildings, lands, forests, nurseries, gardens, 

 and their dependencies, appropriated to the school ; the 

 meteorological observatory ; the furniture of the institution, 

 a library and collections of charts and drawings ; a labora- 

 tory and cabinet of chemistry, with apparatus and reagents; 

 collections and museums of topography, land surveying, 

 and cabinets of illustrations of natural history, of moun- 

 tains, of mechanics, and of forest industries ; the collection 

 of iron implements employed in the practical working of 

 the school lands or in the studies of the pupils; herbaria 

 and collections of plants and of fruits ; and in conclusion, 

 the workshops and machinery, with all the iron tools 

 belonging to these, and the equipments and arms of the 

 warders and dependents. 



The students do not live in the school; but each is required 

 to lodge his address with the secretary of the school, and 

 to keep him informed of any change of residence made by 

 him. They are required to supply themselves with all 

 text-books, mathematical instruments, writing and drawing 



