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if charged, would add greatly to the actual expenditure. 

 But so would it be here. 



On examination I find in the Forest Budget of Spain 

 for 1882, and I have no reason to suppose that that was in 

 any way an exceptional year, the credit asked and granted 

 for the School of Forestry was 33,750 pesetas or francs ; 

 but this did not include the salaries drawn by the director, 

 professors, and assistant professors, as members of advanced 

 grades in the Corps of Forest Engineers, amounting to a 

 much greater sum, probably about 70,000 pesetas : in all, 

 103,750 pesetas, say 4,000. 



In the French Forest Budget for 1880, and in that of the 

 preceding year, 1879, there was asked and granted for 

 instruction in forestry 208,785 francs, about 8,700, of which 

 sum 98,800 francs were designed for the School of Forestry 

 at Nancy ; and it is this alone perhaps with which we need 

 concern ourselves here. 



There existed at that time an organisation for 

 imparting what is called secondary instruction in 

 forestry in other schools situated at Villers-Cotterets, 

 Grenoble, and Toulouse, to which forest engineers under 

 forty years of age were admitted without being subjected 

 to an entrance examination. The course of instruction 

 extended over seven months ; this was attended by men 

 in active service, and any who passed satisfactorily the 

 final or exit examination were eligible for appointment as 

 (,'arde-yeneral adjoint. But it was found by a sub- 

 committee of the Chambre, to which had been submitted 

 questions relative to the instruction in forestry, that the 

 system followed at these schools failed generally to produce 

 men fitted for the duties which the holders of that office 

 were, by the forest regulations, required to discharge ; and 

 the committee recommended that these schools should be 

 given up as not accomplishing the object for which they 

 were organised. The instruction given in these schools 

 represented an annual expense of 22,300 francs. 



The credit granted also included provision for the Ecole 

 Forestiere at l)es Barres-Loiret, founded by M. Vilmorin } 



