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sciences a second time, and tliat after having given attendance on the 

 lectures on forestry. If there is to be a logically defensible order of 

 study followed, the attendance at the AUgemeine HochscJiule must at 

 least precede the attendance at the forest school ; but neither from this 

 arrangement is help to be expected against the evils alleged to attach 

 to the present mode of education of foresters. 



Twenty years ago it might have been a suitable arrangement to make 

 t]ie transference from the AUgemeine Hoclischulc to the forest school 

 one of gradation, by making the one a preparation for the^other ; but 

 now that the lit time has passed, and already in Bavaria the combina- 

 tion of forest instruction with university studies has been eflfected, and 

 become a settled matter, the proposal comes too late. We cannot now 

 be satisfied with half-measures, but we must demand the entire and un- 

 divided advantages of the AUgemeine Hochscludeii. 



At the conclusion of his address, which had been frequently inter- 

 rupted by vehement applause of the assembly, the speaker expressed a 

 hope that the congress would pass a resolution to the effect " that 

 the isolated forest schools were no longer sufficient for the education of 

 officials to be entrusted with the management of forests, and that in 

 these circumstances there was a pressing necessity to transfer the 

 instruction in forestry to the AUgemeine HoehseMden." 



Before the introducers of the discussion had commenced the delivery 

 of their addresses several gentlemen, all from Prussia, had announced 

 their intention to speak in defence of tlie maintenance.'of the special 

 professional schools. It was now proposed, and agreed [to, that as 

 in the meantime a great many friends of the AUgemeine Hochschute 

 had added their names to the list of intending speakers, speakers pro 

 ct contra should alternately address the meeting. 



Then spoke in succession Dr. R. Hartig, Professor in Neustadt- 

 Eberswaldo in Prussia ; Oberforster Heiss, from Neustadt in the 

 Palatinate ; Oberforster Use, from Beurig-Saarburg, near Treves ; 

 Porstmeister Ganghofer, from Wiirtzburg in Bavaria]; Forstmeister 

 Bando, from Neustadt-Eberswalde, in Prussia; Dr. Borggreve, Pro- 

 fessor in Bonn (Poppelsdorf), on the Rhine. Dr. Lothar Meyer, 

 Professor in Carlsruhe, in the Grand Duchy of Baden ; Dr. Gerstner, 

 Professor in Wiirtzbiu'g, in Bavaria ; and Professor Dankelmann 

 replied. 



Thereafter the President desired those who wished to give their vote 

 in favour of professional school instruction in forestry being combined 

 with that given in the AUgemeine Hochschulrn to stand up, when 

 the whole assembly seemed to rise with loud cheering. Then those who 

 were in favour of the continued maintenance of separate schools of 

 forestry were requested to stand up, when sixteen members of the 

 assembly stood up. Thus was the decision of the congress given in 



