3i8 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



with tlio nnivcrsity, of wliicli it now forms a department. The funda- 

 mental and auxiliary sciences, mathematics, natural sciences, chemistry, 

 agriculture, law, etc., are taught by the professors of the university, 

 while those studies that immediately relate to forestry come within 

 the care of this special department. 



The academic forest garden occupies six hectares, and Giessen and 

 Schiffenberg forest-reviers in the neighborhood afford opportunities 

 for practical study. The course of instruction extends through two 

 years. Two excursions are made weekly, at which the subject of the 

 lectures is practically illustrated, and the various operations of sylvi- 

 culture are shown. Besides these, journeys of one or two weeks at a 

 time are taken in summer, under the guidance of one of the teachers. 

 The students of the forest institute enjoy the same rights as those of 

 the university. The average attendance in the forestry department 

 for several years past has been only about fifteen. 



In the Grand-duchy of Saxe- Weimar is a forest institute, at Eise- 

 nach, with three professors and a course of instruction extending through 

 three semesters. This institute was founded as a private school in 

 1808 by Oberforstrath Konig, at Rhula, but was made a state institu- 

 tion in 1830. 



The Ducal Polytechnic School of Brunswick, founded in 1745 by 

 Duke Charles I, and the first polytechnic school ever established, has 

 a department of forestry. 



In addition to these forest schools of the first order, as they may 

 be termed, are subordinate schools at Weihrastephan and at Lichten- 

 hof, near Nuremberg, besides numerous academies and private schools 

 in which the principles of forestry are taught. Many forestry associ- 

 ations also, in one way or another, encourage the study of this science. 



When we consider the limited territory of Germany, as compared 

 with our own country, one can not take even this cursory observation 

 of its forest schools without having the conviction impressed upon 

 him that forestry is there regarded as a subject of the first importance, 

 and that it has interests and relations which are very much if not alto- 

 gether overlooked by us. 



France has an eminent forest school at Nancy, which was estab- 

 lished more than fifty years ago, and has a director and ten professors. 

 It is designed to prepare agents for the state forest service, and foresters 

 for the management of forests belonging to communes and public es- 

 tablishments. The number of ])upils admitted is regulated by the 

 wants of the administration from time to time. During the last fifty 

 years, the school has graduated about a thousand men. In addition 

 to those admitted to be trained for the public service, a certain number 

 are admitted who are called externes. Great Britain, which has no 

 school of forestry of her own, sends annually to Nancy from five to 

 ten pupils to be trained for the management of her forests in India, 

 and in the South African and other colonies. 



