ADMINISTRATION. 2lS 



punctual attendance, studious attention, and respectful 

 and orderly behaviour are enjoined. 



Occasional absence, even with consent of the instructor, 

 want of punctuality, inattention, &c., are punished by 

 deductions from the numerical value attached to the 

 attendance required in order to obtain a diploma at the 

 close of the course ; disobedience, insubordination, &c,, 

 are punished by expulsion or suspension till the decision 

 of the Government is obtained. 



The programme of study in the School of Forestry of 

 Spain has been taken by me I may almost say at hap- 

 hazard from among a dozen of others in the bookcase 

 before me. Almost any one would have given correspon- 

 dent results. The following are several at command for 

 comparison wherein they differ : 



In The Schools of Forestry in Europe: a Plea for the Creation 

 of a School of Forestry in connection with the Arboretum at 

 Edinburgh, are given details, more or less explicit, of 

 arrangements at Aschaffenburg in Bavaria, pp. 13-16; at 

 Schools of Forestry in Russia, pp. 17-22 ; in Stockholm, 

 pp. 23-29; at Nancy in France, pp. 30-45. In The 

 Journal of Forestry, vol. i., is given information in regard to 

 the course of study followed at Hohenheim in Wurtem- 

 burg, pp 81-87; at Carlsruhe in Baden, pp. 394-398; 

 and at Evois in Finland, pp. 545-557, 701-707. And in 

 regard to this last additional details are given in Finland : 

 its Forests and Forest Management, pp. 147-174. 



In accordance with the academic attainments of which 

 such a course of study and such examinations can 

 guarantee is the status assigned to forest officers. They 

 take rank with military men, and other Government 

 officials of recognised social position ; they have an official 

 uniform ; and in one country at least they draw a higher 

 salary than that accorded to military men of corresponding 

 rank, which higher salary may be some compensation 

 for the monotonous life they lead in the forest, while the 



