CHAPTER VII. 



SCHOOL OF FORESTRY. 



IN the time which has passed since the last-mentioned 

 report of the Commissioners appointed in 1865 to give full 

 consideration to everything relating to the management of 

 the forests and report, was issued, the Forest Administration 

 of Finland has sought to keep the management of the 

 Crown forests of the country in accordance with the ever 

 advancing forest science of the day. And one important 

 means of enabling them to do so by making known the 

 progress of that science, and by supplying officials trained 

 and fitted for carrying out forest operations in accordance 

 with a recommendation of the Commissioners in their 

 report, has been the establishment of a School of 

 Forestry at the Crown Park of Evois in Lampes- 

 socken, in Tavastehuslan in Finland, with a view to 

 giving to foresters thorough instruction in all that relates 

 to the theory and practice of forest economy. It was 

 established by Decree dated 10th March 1859, and 

 opened on the 15th of April of the* same year, thoroughly 

 organised, and placed under the superintendence and 

 charge of a director, with three resident lecturers, and 

 one field instructor. Students desirous of enjoying the 

 benefit of the Institution were required to produce before 

 admission a university diploma, or a first-class certificate 

 of the completion of the course of study at a gymnasium. 

 And there was provided for them free instruction, with 

 free quarters and firewood. 



After a time the Institution was closed from lack of 

 students ; but in 1874 it was reorganised by a Decree 

 dated May 2d, 1874, of which the following is a transla- 



