viii PREFACE. 
on specified terms; and assuming that the teacher of 
botany—if there be but one—or one of them, if there be 
more, be qualified by knowledge of the language spoken, 
such advanced students might be sent under his direction 
‘to attend at one of these Continental Forest Schools a 
summer session, and possibly permission might be obtained 
from the same or some other School of Forestry for the 
British students to accompany the students of the country 
on their autumnal excursion, and to take part with them 
in the forest work, to the great advantage of teacher and 
taught, and through them of the country at large.’ 
It has been my design in the preparation of this 
Volume, and of the companion Volume on Zhe Forests 
and Forestry of Northern Russia, to indicate matters of 
general interest included within the general course of 
study of Forest Science which might come under the 
attention of British students availing themselves of pro- 
visions for the prosecution of their studies such as I have 
thus suggested. 
But while,such has been my design in the preparation 
of the Volume, this had nothing to do with my selection of 
the subject of the treatise. 
Dr A. Blomqvist, Director of the National School of 
Forestry at Evois, has done me the favour to peruse several 
of the following sheets since they have been printed, and to 
indicate some of the points in treating of which I have 
erred. He takes exception, on the ground of orthography, 
to the forms which I have given to several Finnish and 
Swedish names and words, and gladly would I avail myself 
of the emendations suggested by him, were this still 
practicable. Unhappily it is not so; but afew words of 
