i62 Forestry Quarterly. 



As interesting in showing the progress of 

 Private private forest management in Germany, the 



Forest School institution of a new private forest school 

 in in the neighborhood of Berhn (Neubran- 



Prussia. denbury) by two Oberforster may be re- 



ferred to. The purpose is to educate on 

 practical hnes both lower and higher grade foresters for private 

 employment and also sons of forest owners, somewhat like Dr. 

 Schenck's school. It is to be a boarding school. 



Centralblatt f. d. g. Forstwesen. October, 19 lo. P. 469. 



The oldest German forest high school, at 



Vicissitudes Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, closed its doors on 



of a July 30, 1910. It had been founded in 



Forest 1807, and with an interruption of a short 



School. period (1832-18/^4.) for over ninety years 



prepared the foresters, wholly or in part, 



for the Bavarian forest service. Since 1878 when a forestry 



faculty was organized at Munich, it laid in a two years' course the 



foundation for the two years at the University which now has 



also been transferred to the University. 



Dr. V. Furst, well known even to American foresters by his 

 volume on forest nursery work, its director for the last 32 years, 

 retiring at the age of seventy-three, writes interestingly of the 

 history of this institution. 



When the school started the city and its surroundings belonged 

 to the electorate of Mainz, but in 18 14 it came into Bavaria. 

 Originally it was a conception of some professors of the gym- 

 nasium, a municipal institution with a one-year course, but in 

 1819 was made a State institution, when a course for the lower 

 and another two-year course for the higher education were organ- 

 ized. 



This hotch-potch did not work well, and the quarrels among 

 the staff broke up the institution in 1832, and transfer of the 

 education to the University, giving up the idea of an academic 

 education for the lowest forest officials to the rank of supervisors. 

 In consequence the poor quality of these officials led to the re- 

 establishment of the school in 1844 with a 2-year course, an 

 organization of a secondary school character, the University con- 



