116 ANNUAL REPORT OF 



Question 15. What are the colleges or schools for 

 scientific forestry instruction and aggregate number of 

 students attending; also, number of forestry schools of 

 lower grade and number of students attending? 



There is, so far, only one college for scientific forestry 

 instruction, which is known as the "Institut du Corps For- 

 estier" in St. Petersburg, which had last year 515 students 

 on January ist, this number was increased during the 

 year by 169 more; 64 students graduated and 55 left for 

 various reasons, thus on January i, 1907, there were 565 

 students as follows: 181 in the I class, 154 in the II 

 class, 127 in the III class and 103 in the IV class. The 

 whole course lasts four years. The maintenance of this 

 college costs annually $i 10,894, of which sum the govern- 

 ment pays $93,250.50 and the students $17,643.50. 



Besides, there are 32 lower grade schools in both Russia 

 in Europe and Russia in Asia, with 580 students. At the 

 beginning of the present year 1162 students presented 

 themselves but only 255 were accepted. The maintenance 

 of these schools costs the government 178,827.00. 



DUCHY OF SAX-MEININGEN. 



The area of state forests is 106,530 acres; of communal 

 forests, 84,460 acres; of private forests, 71,850 acres; 

 miscellaneous, 1,480 acres; in the aggregate, 264,310 

 acres, being equal to 42.4 per cent of the total area of 

 the state. The state forests comprise 24 units of ad- 

 ministration, in charge of 24 superior forest officers. The 

 highest functionary in forestry matters is the president of 

 the forestry bureau. The bureau is composed of five 

 forest councillors, two of whom act as forest inspectors at 

 the same time, each one supervising 12 of the above 



