226 THE FOREST LANDS OF FINLAND. 
To him also we are indebted for a Catalogue Special 
dobjets Forstiers enyoyés & L’ Exposition de Moscow in 1882, par 
L’ Institut Forestiers D’ Evois en Finlande, in which is embodied 
much valuable information. 
With the exception of two, all of the works I have 
mentioned were published in Swedish. A few others 
have been published in Finnish, but Finnish literature is 
as yet, even in Finland, in a nascent condition. These are 
brochures designed for the people, and they may be con- 
sidered translations from the Swedish. All of them are 
good. The most noticeable of them are the following :— 
Lyhykaenen Metsoewho i Donoppi, By M. A. Wahlroos. 
Helsinki. 1874. 
Hitsoenkasvatuksesta, By M. P. W. Hannikainen, Turussa, 
1880. 
Helsien Hoidasta, By M. P. W. Hannikainen, Helsinki. 
1883. 
The reports of successive Commissions appointed by the 
Government to enquire into the state of the forests, and of 
the management of these, having been mentioned in the 
notices given above of the literature of forestry in Finland, 
I may state in connection with this that the successive 
chiefs of administration of the State Forests were :— 
From 185] to 1864, Staatsrath Claes Wilhelm von 
Gylden, founder of the School of Forestry at Evois, author 
of one of the books of which mention has been made, and 
founder of the modern forest economy of Finland. A 
biography of him, with a portrait, occupies the first volume 
of the Finska Forstfoereningens Meddelanden. He was a 
man highly distinguished; and exercised great influence 
on the development of the Forest Administration in 
Finland ; 
From 1864 to 1870, Baron R. Wrede, a military officer ; 
And from 1870 to the present time, Mr A. de Forselles, 
of whom mention has been made in connection with the 
founding of the School of Forestry. He was originally, as 
