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items of value such as hunting and fishing privileges which may 



be rendered less valuable. 



Biniges iiber Wasserabgahe aus G ebirgszvaldung en . Silva. November 

 18, 1910. Pp. 361-62. 



Last fall with the abandonment of the 



Modern forest school at Aschaffenburg (see F. Q. 



Forestry Vol. IX, p. 162), the whole method of edu- 



Bducation. eating foresters for the service in the State 



forest administration of Bavaria was 



changed and rearranged by royal decree. As we are at present 



concerned in standardizing forestry education on this continent, 



it may be of interest to brief this decree for comparison with our 



own ways. It is especially of interest as the education in Bavaria 



is carried on at a University, corresponding to what we would 



call a post-graduate course. Entrance requires graduation from 



a gymnasium, which corresponds to a good arts course into the 



junior year. 



The time of study is four years with professional work, with 

 two examinations, a so-called intermediary and a final theoretical 

 examination. The latter which concerns all forestry subjects (9 

 mentioned), besides law, politic economy and surveying, is oral 

 and public; the former, both oral and written, which may be 

 taken after two years of study, comprises the natural history and 

 mathematical, physical, fundamental and accessory subjects, 

 which are recited in six groups, as follows : 



Group A — ^Experimental Chemistry (morganic and organic), 

 Forestal Chemistry, especially the chemical parts of 

 forest technology. 

 Group B — Mineralogy, Geology, Petrography, Forestal soil 

 knowledge, with the fundamentals of Agricultural 

 Chemistry. 

 Group C — Botany (Morphology, Taxonomy), Plant Anatomy — 



Physiology — Pathology and Plant Protection. 

 Group D — Zoology (Biology and Systematic), Natural History of 

 forestally important animals, especially forest ento- 

 mology. 

 Group B — Elements of Higher Mathematics, Descriptive Geom- 

 etry, Geodesy with special reference to forestal needs. 

 Group P — General Meteorology and Climatology, principles of 

 weather prediction. 



