90 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Howard, having spent some time in the Prus- 



I'orcst sian Research Institute, traces the development 



Research of forest research in Europe. In Germany, 



Oryauizvtion Wedekind in 1826, Carl Heyer in 1845, ^'^^ ^ 



number of other leading foresters around i860, 



pointed out the need of such research. In 1867 and 1868 Gayer and. 



Baur sketched in detail organization and methods, and the first real 



move was made at a meeting in \'ienna. 



The committee there elected were Wessely, G. Heyer, Ebermayer, 

 Judeich, and Baur, representing most of Germany. They met in Re- 

 gensburg in November, 1868, where it was decided that the larger 

 States, Austria, Prussia, and Bavaria, should have independent research 

 institutes For the smaller States the professors in the various forest 

 colleges were to undertake research work as part of their duties. 

 Among other things, they discussed the advisability of forming an 

 association to further forest research and suggested an international 

 association. It was decided that the research institutes of all the 

 States were to be combined with the educational branch — that is to say,, 

 the president of the forest college was to be president of the research 

 institute. 



Germany was the first country to organize its research and to found 

 a Forest Research Association. This association, although really 

 dating from the committee meeting in 1868, was not formally formed 

 imtil 1872. 



The hopeless inferiority of French research is put down by French 

 foresters to lack of men and money and bad organization. If France 

 had attended the international meetings, enough interest would prob- 

 ably have been stimulated for men and money to be forthcoming, and, 

 at any rate, much would have been learned about organizing research. 



Although instructions were issued for organizing forest research in 

 1882. to be under the control of the director of the Nancy Forest 

 College, the instructions were "hopelessly carried out." "Experiments 

 were begun, but were usually badly organized and badly carried out." 



In 191 1, however, these proposals had not yet materialized and a 

 professor at Nancy stated that he was not very hopeful about them. 

 He confessed that French research was severely handicapped by not 

 taking part in the International Association. 



In 1912 all German States of importance had their Forest Research. 

 Institutes (combined with the college) united under the German Forest 



