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■partition of forests for exploitation, valuation of forests and 

 practical maoagement of forests, forest excursions, " demonstra- 

 tions " in different forest districts. Botanic Garden and Museum 

 of Forest Products, cubic measurements of trees and cubic 

 contents of woods, land surveying and levelling and mensura- 

 tion of forests with theodolite. 



For lodging and tuition, the students, if subjects of Wurtem- 

 burg, pay less than forty dollars a year, but foreign students 

 are charged threefold more. Foreigners are admitted who pass 

 the required examination and produce the ticket of legitima- 

 tion " from the proper authorities. Dom Pedro appreciates the 

 national importance of forestry in Brazil. I was much inter- 

 ested in an intelligent and ambitious young Brazilian who is 

 here training himself for a forest appointment in his native 

 country. 



A striking illustration of the influence of Forest Schools is 

 found in the authorship of their professors and graduates. In 

 the long run, the influence of any institution may be measured 

 largely b}^ the authorship which it prompts. Judged by this 

 test, the Forest Schools of Europe have made a worthy record. 

 By the cooperation of their professors and other writers, and 

 sometimes of government officials especially commissioned to 

 investigate different branches of the subject, the literature of 

 forestry, already large, is now rapidly increasing. A German 

 catalogue gives the titles of 1,815 volumes on forestry issued 

 prior to 181:2, and the titles of 650 works published in the six 

 years prior to 1876. On an average, over one hundred new 

 books on forestry appear annually in the German language. 

 One of the Spanish Commissioners to the Centennial Exposition, 

 Senor Morera, published a list of 1,126 volumes on forestry in 

 the Spanish language alone. Director Berenger of Yallombrosa 

 has published over thirty books and pamphlets, among them 

 one pronounced by Hon. George P. Marsh of great value on 

 "The Absolute Influence of Forests on the Temperature of 

 the Air." He also edits an able Journal of Forestry, "The 

 Giornale di Economia Forestale." 



The question has been much mooted in Europe of late, 

 whether Schools of Forestry should be isolated, or connested as 

 an additional department with existing universities or Poly- 



