208 MODERN FOREST ECONOMY. 



The education, instruction, and training given in these 

 Schools of Forestry is of the most comprehensive character, 

 being unsurpassed in this respect by any arrangements fjor 

 professional studies in Britain. In illustration, I might 

 cite at haphazard the published programme of study at 

 any one of them. I take that of Spain. 



In Spain the School of Forestry bears the designation 

 La Escuela Especial de Ingenieros de Monies (The School of 

 Mountain Engineers). In France not a little has been 

 done by les [ngenieurs des Fonts et Ckaussees (or the Engineers 

 of Roads and Bridges), in carrying out, in connection with 

 officers of the Forest Service, the reboisement of the 

 mountains, or the replanting of them with trees, &c., with 

 a view to arresting and preventing the destructive conse- 

 quences and effects of torrents. The designation of the 

 Spanish School of Forestry indicates that something- 

 similar to this is the main and the special duty of the 

 corresponding body of engineers in Spain. Their duties 

 relate primarily and especially to the creation rather than 

 to the exploitation of forests. The school is located in the 

 old palace of the Escurial. It is under the control of the 

 Minister of Instruction ; and it is regulated under a decree 

 issued under date of 24th October 1870. Under a pre- 

 vious decree, of 23rd October 1868, the prescribed course 

 of study embraced a period of three years. By that now 

 in force the curriculum has been extended to embrace a 

 period of four years. 



In order to gain admittance to the school, the applicant 

 must be accredited by certificates or diplomas of having 

 passed an academic examination in the following subjects, 

 Spanish grammar, Latin grammar, geography, and the 

 general and detailed history of Spain ; and he is admitted 

 only after passing, with approval, an examination in the 

 school on the elements of natural history, the elements of the 

 theory of mechanics, descriptive geometry and its applica- 

 tion to projections and to perspective, physics, chemistry, 

 lineal, topographical, and landscape drawing, and his 

 knowledge of the French and German languages. 



