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To him also we are indebted for a Catalogue Special 

 d'objets Forstiers enyoyes a L' Exposition de Moscow in 1882, par 

 VJnstitut Forestiers D' Evois en Finlande, in which is embodied 

 much valuable information. 



With the exception of two, all of the works I have 

 mentioned were published in Swedish. A few others 

 have bsen published in Finnish, but Finnish literature is 

 as yet, even in Finland, in a nascent condition. These are 

 brochures designed for the people, and they may be con- 

 sidered translations from the Swedish. All of them are 

 good. The most noticeable of them are the following: 



Lyhykaenen Melsoewho i Donoppi. By M. A. Wahlroos. 

 Helsinki. 1874. 



Etsoenkasvatuksesta. By M. P. W. Hannikainen, Turussa. 

 1880. 



Hehien Hoidasta. By M. P. W. Hannikainen, Helsinki. 

 1883. 



The reports of successive Commissions appointed by the 

 Government to enquire into the state of the forests, and of 

 the management of these, having been mentioned in the 

 notices given above of the literature of forestry in Finland, 

 I may state in connection with this that the successive 

 chiefs of administration of the State Forests were : 



From 1851 to 1864, Staatsrath Claes Wilhelm von 

 Gylden, founder of the School of Forestry at Evois, author 

 of one of the books of which mention has been made, and 

 founder of the modern forest economy of Finland. A 

 biography of him, with a portrait, occupies the first volume 

 of the Finska Forstfoereningens Meddelanden. He was a 

 man highly distinguished ; and exercised great influence 

 on the development of the Forest Administration in 

 Finland ; 



From 1864 to 1870, Baron R. Wrede, a military officer; 



And from 1870 to the present time, Mr A. de Forselles, 

 of whom mention has been made in connection with the 

 founding of the School of Forestry. He was originally, as 



