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The work by Sennor Jordan a cited in this quotation was 

 published in 1875, and referred, as has been stated, to 

 works which had appeared in Spain previous to I860. 



Apart from the forestal literature which was in exist- 

 ence in Spain previous to the establishment of a School 

 of Forest Engineers, there has been issued in connection 

 with demands felt in.connection with operations resulting 

 from that enterprise, numerous works on subjects 

 connected with Forest Science and modern Forest 

 Economy. There have been given in a preceding chapter 

 [ante pp. 136-143] the titles of a hundred and fifty of 

 these, with the dates of publication, and the names of the 

 writers forty-two in number all of which works may 

 be considered works designed to meet a felt want ; and 

 most of them have been published within the last ten 

 years. 



We cannot compare with such progress ; but a 

 beginning has been made in the publication of similar 

 works in our language. 



The " Plea " issued by me was published in the spring 

 of 1877. Within a month thereafter there was issued 

 the first number of the Journal of Forestry. The first 

 paragraph of the Introductory Editorial Notes urged the 

 establishment in the British Islands of a School of 

 Forestry. From that day till the close of the publication 

 of the periodical with the issue for April last, prominence has 

 been given to this matter in the pages of that journal ; 

 and in it valuable contributions have been made to the 

 forest literature of our country. Long before that there 

 had been organised the Scottish Arboricultural Society ; 

 one of the first subjects brought before them was the 

 expediency of securing some such institution, and with 

 like pertinacity to that of the Journal of Forestry, the 

 published transactions of the Society have urged this 

 measure, and added to our stores of information in regard 

 to forests and forest operations in Scotland. During the 

 period within which these transactions have been pub- 



