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at Oxford. In Austria the work of the research station at Alariabrunn 

 was less closely united with the great school of forestry in \"ienna. In 

 India the forest research institute at Dehra Dun was founded, with 

 the express policy that the dual purpose for which the research institute 

 was established was to give a high-class education in forestry and to 

 conduct forest research. It appears, so far as I am able to determine, 

 that in almost every country except the United States forest research 

 has been organized and developed in connection with forest academies 

 and schools through financial support by the Government. 



In Germany it was soon realized that some kind of a research organi- 

 zation for the entire country was necessary to bring about co-operation 

 in research at the different institutes and schools, to continue ideas and 

 plans with changes in research personnel, and to assist in planning re- 

 search and, possibly influence, through friendly criticism, the direction 

 of research. Unfortunately, in this country we have not as yet recog- 

 nized the need of such an organization. The German Forest Research 

 Association was created in 1872, four years after the election of the 

 committee of five in Vienna. Although the organization of forest re- 

 search in most other countries has followed more or less closely the 

 German plan, it must be admitted the work was better supported in 

 Germany than elsewhere and that country has been most productive in 

 results. The usefulness of the German Forest Research Association 

 to that country in the past can scarcely be overemphasized. Up to the 

 outbreak of war in 1914 it met twice each year, and included repre- 

 sentatives from all German States. 



Although the research work of the European forest research insti- 

 tutes is somewhat different in different countries and even in different 

 States within a single country, as in Germany, I have selected the insti- 

 tute at Eberswalde, with which I am personally familiar, as a repre- 

 sentative forest research institute. The research work there is under 

 six branches : 



1. Silviculture. 



2. Physics and chemistry. 

 ■ ' 3. Meteorology. 



4. Plant physiology. 



5. Zoology. 



6. Mycology. 



The men at the head of these branches, in some instances, are ap- 

 pointed for research alone ; in other instances they are professors in 



