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made to introduce into the management of the forests the latest improve- 

 ments in forest management adopted in Germany and France, and to 

 regulate the national forest economy in accordance with the most 

 advanced forest science of the day. In regard to the measures adopted, 

 and the history of the movement from its commencement to the present 

 time, detailed information is forthcoming whenever it may be desired 

 and occasion serve. 



In a pamphlet entitled " The Schools of Forestry in Europe : a 

 Plea for the Creation of a School of Forestry in connection with the 

 Arboretum at Edinburgh." * I have given a translation of the regula- 

 tions of the Forest Institute and Primary Forest Schools of Sweden, 

 which were sanctioned by the king under date of May 25, 1860. 



The following is a translation of the existing later regulations: 



His MAJESTY'S NEW ORDINANCES FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF FORESTRY 

 IN THE KINGDOM. 



Stockholm Palace, 15th September, 1871. 



Chapter I. The Forest Institute. 



Section 1st. The Forest Institute, which stands under the inspection of 

 the Forest Department, and is presided over by a director, has for its end to 

 educate able forest managers by free instruction. 



Section 2nd. At the Forest Institute in the Eoyal Zoological Gardens at 

 Stockholm, a convenient locality is open at all times, containing partly lecture 

 halls and the necessary buildings, also space for the collections necessary for 

 instruction, partly also a portion of ground for nurseries, and the planting of 

 trees, and exercise grounds. 



Section 3rd. In the Institute instruction shall be given in the partition of 

 forests, cultivation of forests, forest technology, the doctrine of climate 

 and soil, forest botany, forest entomology, forest zoology, hunting, mathe- 

 matics, the institutes of forestry and hunting, book-keeping and transaction 

 of business, map-drawing, weighing, and the art of shooting. 



Section 4th. For the practical yearly exercises appertaining to the in- 

 struction, suitable forests must be appropriated by the Forest Department, in 

 case the fields adjoining to the Institute are not sufficient. 



Section 5th. The course of instruction, which begins with the month of 

 June each year, and for which pupils may be taken so long as there is room in 

 ' the Institute and means for their support, continues two years, with a corre- 

 sponding division of the subjects of instruction for each year, so that the 

 teaching in the Institute, together with the practical exercises in its neigh- 

 bourhood, goes on from the beginning of October to the end of May, with 

 three weeks' vacation at Christmas ; and the summer months are to be applied 

 to forest measurement, together with other practical exercises, in the woods 

 appropriated by the Forest Department for this purpose. 



Section 6th. With the division of the subjects of instruction laid down as 

 follows, the instruction shall be carried out by the director as forest lector, and 

 three lectors, who shall constitute the college of the Institute. On the invita- 

 * Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd, 1877. 



