& PREFACE. 
but not yet enjoying the rights of a State. In European 
Russia the whole country is divided ‘imto Governments, 
but in Siberia there are both Governors and Governor- 
Generals. Subject to the Governor-CGenerals, each oblast 
has its Governor and its capital, which ranks as a Govern- 
ment town. The oblast again is divided into uyzeds, each 
ef which has its ‘principal town, over which presides 
an Ispravnick; the uyzeds are divided into vollosts; and 
vollosts into villages with a church (sello), or hamlets 
(derevnia), if there be none. The chief man of a vollost is a 
Zasidatil ; the chief man of a village is a Starosta, or 
alderman. It is alleged that an oblast is a territory the 
government of which is still being developed, while in a 
Government the government is determinate, the civil and 
military organisations being distinct. Now Finland is not 
such a province as is a Siberian oblast; and thus does 
importance attach to the distinction now made. 
I further learn that the account I have given (p. 168) of 
the staff of teachers at the School of Forestry at Evois 
would require to be altered to make it correctly descrip- 
tive of the existing state of that Institution, and it was 
only in the editing of the first regulation of that Institute 
that Dr. ‘Blomqvist acted as secretary to Mr Gylden, 
which requires a slight modification of a statement made 
on page 167. 
In connection with the notice (p. 226) of Baron Rabbi 
Wrede having been Chief of the Administration of Forests 
from 1864 to 1870, it might have been stated that he was 
in 1859 appointed adjoint ordinaire to Mr Gylden in that 
office, and succeeded him as Chief (Forst styrelsen) in 
1864, when that office was separated from the Department 
of ‘Surveying (Landmateristyrelsen), which office he ‘held. 
