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on specified terms ; and assuming that the teacher of 

 botany if there be but one or one of them, if there be 

 more, be qualified by knowledge of the language spoken, 

 such advanced students might be sent under his direction 

 to attend at one of these Continental Forest Schools a 

 summer session, and possibly permission might be obtained 

 from the same or some other School of Forestry for the 

 British students to accompany the students of the country 

 on their autumnal excursion, and to take part with them 

 in the forest work, to the great advantage of teacher and 

 taught, and through them of the country at large.' 



It has been my design in the preparation of this 

 Volume, and of the companion Volume on The Forests 

 and Forestry of Northern Russia, to indicate matters of 

 general interest included within the general course of 

 study of Forest Science which might come under the 

 attention of British students availing themselves of pro-' 

 visions for the prosecution of their studies such as I have 

 thus suggested. 



But while such has been my design in the preparation 

 of the Volume, this had nothing to do with my selection of 

 the subject of the treatise. 



Dr A. Blomqvist, Director of the National School of 

 Forestry at Evois, has done me the favour to peruse several 

 of the following sheets since they have been printed, and to 

 indicate some of the points in treating of which I have 

 erred. He takes exception, on the ground of orthography, 

 to the forms which I have given to several Finnish and 

 Swedish names and words, and gladly would I avail myself 

 of the emendations suggested by him, were this still 

 practicable. Unhappily it is not so ; but a few words of 



