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and elevations of the sarrounding lands, measure the height anu 

 girth of trees, calculate the amount of timber, and learn the 

 'various methods of management and exploitation of forests, and 

 with Director Berenger for special exercises in practical forestry. 

 Besides regular lesson trips, a long excursion is made annually 

 to some extensive woods. One of these journeys of observation, 

 occupying a month, extended to Naples during the International 

 Exhibition of Woods used in Ship building, and included the 

 inspection of the leading forests in Southern Italy. 

 The following is the Cnrriculum : 



First Year. Mathematics^ including Algebra, Geometry 

 and Trigonometry. Chemistry — Organic and Inorganic, with 

 experiments. Natural History — Botany, Systematic and Veget- 

 able Physiology. Forestry — Theoretic and Practical. Lan- 

 guages — Italian, Grerman and French, with Eeading, Writing 

 and translating of Forest Literature. 



Second Year. Mathematics applied — Differential and Inte- 

 gral Calculus, Conic Sections, Measuring Heights of Trees and 

 Cubic Contents, Plan Drawing and Valuation Surveys. Climat- 

 ology and Forest Meteorology. Natural History — Botany, Den- 

 drology, Forest Entomology, Geology and Mineralogy. Forest 

 Economy — History of Forest Science, Practical Sylviculture, Sea- 

 soning of Timber and Exploitation of Forests. Elements of Agri- 

 culture — Improvement of Soils, Pasturage, Drainage, Agricul- 

 ture, etc. Languages — Exercises in Italian, German and French. 



Third Year. Mathematics applied — Eates of Growth of 

 Trees. Mensuration, Preparing Charts and Levels, Estimating 

 Condition and Yalue of Forests, Forest Administration — Statis- 

 tics of different Woods, Classification of Forests, Eeclamation 

 of Barrens and Wastes, Planting of Sand Dunes, and of Marshes. 

 Forest Land — Government and Pastoral Eights. Forest Economy 

 — Political and National. Languages — Italian, German and 

 French. 



The first year is mainly devoted to scientific training, and in 

 the second and third years the practical details of forest man- 

 agement are taught. Tracts of land bearing evergreen and 

 deciduous trees of various ages are set apart to be managed by 

 individual students. In the nursery also, each has a division 

 ^bearing his name where he may show his skill, patience and 



