with the material ot which the lectures treat. 
No small dependance is placed on ‘‘visual’’ in- 
struction, the museum being well supplied 
with models, as for example, of splash dams, 
logging camps, arrangements for sorting logs 
on the drive, and the like. Another feature 
of the instruction at this school is an annual 
excursion to one or more of the state forests. 
In an annex at one end of the building is 
an excellent forestry library, above which is 
a well appointed club room for the students. 
It is of interest to note that in Europe, as in 
the United States, the value of an active for- 
est school club is recognized as an important 
aid in developing the esprit de corps without 
which the profession of forestry would lose 
one of its most distinctive features. 
The staff of the Swedish Forest School 
consists of a rector and three other profes- 
sors who teach strictly forestry subjects, plus 
about a dozen lecturers who handle related 
subjects. The school is organized as an 
only 25 may proceed to Stockholm. The nat- 
ural result is that the student body is kept 
keyed up to a high state of efficiency, for to 
be dropped means in many cases the end of 
a man’s opportunity to qualify for entrance 
into the profession. There is, however, an 
arrangement whereby a student who has 
failed by only a few points may be permitted 
to have another chance the next year. The 
students while at Garpenberg are under strict 
military discipline. They wear uniforms, as 
do indeed the members of the Swedish For- 
est Service itself when they are on duty. For 
occasions of ceremony a large cape and a 
sword complete the costume. The graduates 
of the forest school are designated ‘“‘jagmas- 
tare’. Their assignment to more or less de- 
sirable stations in the forest service depends 
in part on their scholastic standing while at 
the school, for the isolated posts in the north 
of Sweden, with the long, dark winters, are 
naturally less attractive than are the positions 
THE SWEDISH 
FOREST 
SCHOOL AT 
STOCKHOLM. 
THE WING AT 
THE RIGHT 
CONTAINS 
THE LIBRARY 
AND THE 
FOREST CLUB 
ROOMS 
ig 
academy—that is, it is not a part of the uni- 
versity but an independent unit. The rector 
is Prof. A. H. Wahlgren, author of a large 
volume on silviculture that is used as a text- 
book in all the Scandinavian forest schools. 
As showing the connection between the for- 
est service and the forest school in Sweden, 
it may be noted that questions of policy are 
decided by an administrative board, on which 
there serve ex officio, representatives of the 
forest service and of other Swedish organiza- 
tions having to do with forestry. 
The number of students is limited to 25 to 
a class; the course covers three autumn 
terms, two spring terms and two summer 
terms. But not all of the instruction is given 
at Stockholm. Prior to formal matriculation 
at the school the students spend a prepara- 
tory period of nine months at Garpenberg, a 
place about 80 miles north of Stockholm, 
where they live in a handsome old chateau 
located on one of the ‘“‘krono-parks” or na- 
tional forests. Forty men are permitted to 
enter the class, but at the end of the period 
on the forests in the central and southern 
parts of the country. 
Occupying a portion of the srounds of the 
forest school is the headquarters of the Swed- 
ish Forest Experiment Station. Its large li- 
brary is operated in conjunction with that of 
the school and members of its staff are among 
the instructors at the school. This intimate 
relation between teaching and investigation 
perhaps accounts in part for the very general 
interest taken by all Swedish foresters in for- 
est research. The net impression that one 
carries away from a visit to Stockholm is 
that education in forestry in Sweden is ex- 
tremely well provided for and that the train- 
ing that the students receive is both com- 
prehensive and thorough. 
THE AMERICAN. 
SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION 
; While not a part of the regularly estab- 
lisred educational system of Sweden or of 
Norway, it is appropriate here to make men- 
tion of an educational organization that is 
destined to play a considerable part in ce 
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