SCHOOL OF FORESTRY. 167 
of operations deemed suitable for a specified forest, which 
students at Evois are required to prepare, is prepared in 
view of this three-fold object, and the surveys, charts, 
inventories, and estimates for which information is col- 
lected in the forest in question during the autumn, are all 
prepared as data required for this plan of exploitation and 
treatment. And it may be assumed that forest reviers which 
have been for years under the management of Foresters 
or Forest-Masters so trained must be in an improved 
condition. 
The number of students has increased from 6 to 24; 
the students designed for Forest-Wardens are at present 
14 in number, but they will shortly be increased to 
24. 
The first Director of the School of Forestry at Evois was 
Colonel Alexander de Forselles, who may be said to have 
founded the school; but the first regulations were drawn 
out by Staats-rath C. W. Gyldens, and by him Dr A. G. 
Blomqvist, the present Director of the school, was appointed 
secretary and adviser. Till 1870 the Directorship of the 
Institute was held by Colonel Forselles, and Dr Blomqvist 
was lecturer on forest science. In that year Colonel 
Forselles was appointed Chief of the forest department of 
Finland, Cepverdirektor foer Forstvoesendet. Previous to 
his appointment as Director of the Institute he was distin- 
guished as a military engineer. He was a man of great 
inventive powers and administrative faculty,and his name 
became associated with an instrument he constructed for 
measuring the height of trees, which was based on a new 
idea. The present staff of instructors is composed of :— 
Dr A. G. Blomqvist, Director; Magister J. E. Furuhjelm, 
instructor in physical science; M. C. A. J. Nybers, 
instructor in geodesy, agriculture, and drawing; M. H. 
Hackstedt, instructor in mathematics, engineering, and 
forest science; Forest-Master A. B. Heikel, instructor 
in the school for Forest-Wardens; in carpentry and 
manipulation of wood in the workshops of the guards 
and in the forests, Instructor K. Oksanen, 
