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burg, Bavaria, one of the most clistinguished schools, has grown out 

 of a forest institute established originally in 1807, which by a decree 

 of the Government in 1874 was united with the University of Mu- 

 nich. It is under the direction of Stumpf, who is assisted by five 

 professors. This school has had the benefit and honor of the labors 

 of Dr. Ernst Ebermayer, whose work on the " Physical Influences 

 of Forests on the Earth and Air," published in 1873, in two vol- 

 umes octavo, ranks as one of the most important treatises upon this 

 subject. 



The Royal Saxon Forest Academy at Tharandt is justly distin- 

 guished. It is now under the care of Dr. J. F. Judeich, who was 

 president of the jury of award on exhibitions of forestry at Vienna in 

 1873. The course of instruction occupies two years and a half, under 

 a director aided by four professors and two assistants. The average 

 attendance of students is about fifty, more than half of whom are 

 foreigners. The number in attendance has lately been much increased, 

 and several Americans are reported among them. 



In Wtirtemberg is the agricultural and forestral academy at Hohen- 

 heim, which has grown out of two separate institutions founded in 

 1818, and united two years afterward. It was reorganized in 1865, and 

 is now one of the most important of the German schools, its course of 

 instruction both in agriculture and forestry being very full. It is 

 located on a princely estate near Stuttgart. It has a noble park of 

 twenty acres, and extensive plantations or nurseries of trees and plants 

 both native and foreign. Between seven and eight hundred acres of 

 land are devoted to the purposes of agriculture, and between five and 

 six thousand acres are devoted to the study and uses of forestry. This 

 academy is probably the best sf)ecimen Avhich Germany affords of the 

 combined agricultural and forestral school. It has extensive and valu- 

 able collections. Its course of instruction extends to two and a half 

 years. Its faculty consists of a director, nine professors and seven 

 adjunct professors, two reviewers, and one assistant. 



Professor Mathieu, of Nancy, describing this institution in the 

 " Review of Woods and Forests," says : " The little kingdom of Wtir- 

 temberg, with scarcely two million of inhabitants, has spared nothing 

 in providing itself with whatever could contribute to the success of 

 instruction or to the progress of science. This truly liberal spirit has 

 led to the establishment of magnificent agricultural galleries, where 

 we find collected, to the number of sixteen hundred, the various tools 

 and machines employed in labors of the field ; elegant rooms filled with 

 forestral collections, implements, woods, and various products ; cab- 

 inets in botany, zoology, mineralogy, and geology ; instruments for 

 use in studies of physics and geodesy ; a station for experiments con- 

 cerning woods, and another for meteorology. Its library numbers 

 five thousand five hundred volumes, and its reading-room contains 

 numerous periodicals in all languages, of which forty-nine are scientific, 



