75^ The yourual of Forestry. 



marked attention, tlie sederunt, commencing at ft a.m., being con- 

 tinued with an hour's interval till three o'clock in the afternoon. 

 It appears to have been a continuation or resumption of a dis- 

 cussion of the same subject at Lliihlhausen the year before. Two 

 distinguished students- of forest science had been appointed to open 

 the discussion by reading papers, each stating the case in favour of 

 that one of the arrangements which he approved. 

 I The discussion was opened by Ober-forst meister Professor 

 Danckelmann, Director of the School of Forestry at Neustadt- 

 Eberswaldc, in Prussia, defending the organization of Forest 

 Academies in preference to the substitution for these of arrangements 

 for the study of forest science in universities or other seats of 

 learning. In the opening of his address he alleged that the move- 

 ment in favour of this latter arrangement had not originated with the 

 Governments, or the Legislative Assemblies, or the forest officials of 

 the day, but with professors in universities, and others ambitious of 

 attaining to the status and emoluments of such, desirous of elevating 

 the position of forest science amongst other departments of science ; 

 but he intimated that all this he considered unnecessary. He contrasted 

 the progress made by the school of forestry at Miinden, in Hanover, 

 contrary to predictions which had been freely made, with an alleged 

 failure of the HochxclnLlc filr Bodcnl'uUur at Vienna, which he described 

 as an extra-mural member of the university without any basis of 

 fundamental science, a school existing only on paper, — an incomplete 

 piece of work, with little prospect of durability. 



jgg, But against this representation Dr. von Seckendorf, from Vienna, 

 who was the member of congress appointed to open the discussion 

 by stating the case in favour of arrangements being made for the study 

 of forestry at Hocliscliiden and universities, protested. 



Herr Danckelmann went on to say that, the ground having been 

 prepared by pamphlets and articles upon the subject in journals 

 the question was at length formally raised, I presume at the 

 congress of the preceding year, held at Mlihlhausen, when, with the 

 solitary exception of Neustadt, which with the unanimous consent 

 and agreement of his colleagues declared for the maintenance of 

 forest academies, all seemed to support the movement. 



In the meantime, in Bavaria, he said, a commission with a pre- 

 ponderating proportion of professors had spoken out against the main, 

 tenance of forest academies as separate institutions. But the 

 Legislative Chamber took a difierent view of what was desirable^ 

 notwithstanding that the Government Board had also spoken in terms 

 w^hich could not be misunderstood in favour of the change. And he 

 hoped for a vote of this congress which would keep the ^ijiatter on the 

 right rail. The question had been discussed at Muhlshausen, but tl^e 



