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order of architecture, or a machine; some model drawing 

 of a landscape in Les Muds d'aprei Nature, by Calame, and 

 a pen-and-ink representation of mountains, sands, rocks, 

 and arable land, according to the method of Rindavets. 

 And in French and German are required correct transla- 

 tions from these languages into Spanish. 



Application for admission must^be made previously to 

 the 1st of September in any year. 



It is not requisite that the applicant should be 

 examined in any one year on all of the subjects embraced 

 in the entrance examination, and he is required to specify 

 those on which he desires to be examined. If he pass 

 any examination with approval, this will be certified, and 

 when he has been examined in all with approval he will 

 be admitted, and enter on the special studies of the 

 school, which embrace the following subjects : — Physical 

 geography, land surveying, mensuration of wood, applied 

 mechanics, applied chemistry, applied mineralogy, applied 

 botany, applied zoology, applied geology, laying out of 

 forests, sylviculture, meteorology, and climatology ; moun- 

 tain geography and classification of mountains ; forest 

 industries ; political economy, with a special reference to 

 its application to forest questions ; elements of the 

 administrative direction of forest management; and 

 drawing in its application to the course of study 

 required. 



For conducting these studies there are appointed a 

 director, who is head of the school ; nine professors, of the 

 body of engineers ; two assistants, who must also be 

 engineers ; and to these are joined the following subordi- 

 nates : — A collector, preparer, and conservator of objects 

 of natural history ; an official assistant secretary ; an 

 official assistant librarian ; two clerks ; a steward ; a 

 resident in charge of the school forest ; a porter ; three 

 servitors ; necessary warders and subwarders for the pro- 

 tection of the land aad mountains appropriated to the 

 service of the school ; and labourers and peasants required 

 for work on the same. 



