SCHOOLS OF FORESTRY. 



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It is one of the twenty-two meteorological stations established by the 

 general statistical commission of the kingdom.^ 



POETUGAL. 



In 1852, an agricultural institute was formed in Lisbon, and in 1855 

 a veterinary school was anited. In 1865 it was reorganized as the " Gen- 

 eral Institute of Agriculture," the course embracing rural engineering, 

 agronomy, sylviculture, and forest engineering, and veterinary medicine. 

 The school has ten professors of the first class and five substitutes. It 

 is located at Cruz de Taboado, in the suburbs of Lisbon, and has botan- 

 ical and agricultural gardens, cabinets, and collections for practical in- 

 struction. 



DENMARK. 



The Royal Veterinary a7id Agricultural High ScJiool at CopenJiagen was 

 established March 18, 1850, and, on the 22d of January, 1869, a depart- 

 ment of forestry was annexed. 



SCHOOLS OF FORESTRY IN RUSSIA. 



The Agricultural and Forestal Academy of Pitrovsh was established in 1865, ne.ar Moscow, 

 and is designed to give young men superior instructions in all branches of the agro- 

 nomic scieuces as well as in tylviculture. The pui)ils pursuing the academic course may 

 pass an examination in the section of general agriculture cr in the special section of 

 sylviculture. Before entering the academy, students must have finished the course of 

 instructious taught in the gymnasia. 



The Agronomic Institute at Saint Petersburg was organized in 1848 at the city of Gorki, 

 in the government of Mohilew, in place of a superior school of agriculture, which had 

 existed there since 1842. It was removed to Saint Petersburg in 1865. 



Like the academy at Pdtrovsk, the Agronomic Institute has for its object to give 

 young men superior instruction in agriculture and sylviculture, and for this purpose it 

 is organized in two sections, agronomy and sylviculture. The rules for entering the 

 institute, the course of instruction, and the rights of those who have finished the course 

 are the same as at P6trov8k. 



Forest School at Lissino. — Besides the institutions above mentioned, there is in the 

 government of Saint Petersburg, and 70 versts (4(% miles) from the city, in the village 



1 Candidates for admission are examined in elementary mechanics, descriptive geome- 

 try in its application to shadows and perspective, physics, general chemistry, natural 

 history, linear and topographical drawing, French, and German. They must have 

 passed in the schools the Spanish grammar, Latin grammar, geography, general his- 

 tory, and the history of Spain, 



The course of instruction lasts three years, of which the first includes topography, 

 surveying, stereometry, and applied mechanics ; the second includes chemistry, 

 mineralogy, botany, zoology, and practical geology ; and the third, forestal construc- 

 tion, sylviculture, management of woodlands, political economy, and administrative 

 affairs. 



By a decree, dated May 25, 1877, it has been ordered, that beginning in June, 1878, 

 applicants for admission to the schools of Roads and Mines, and of Forestry, shall be 

 examined upon the fallowing subjects, viz, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, 

 analytical geometry, and the infinitesimal calculus, linear and topographical drawing,, 

 mechanics, physics and chemistry. Rules are prtscribed for conducting the examina- 

 tions, and for the publication of notices. 



Kumher that have received the title of forest engineers at the Spanish School of Forestry 

 since its organization. 



(Eevista de Monies, No. 9, p. 209 ; No. 11, p. 252.) 



