io8 Forestry Quarterly. 



Experimental Chemistry. Anatomy and Physiology of Plants. 

 Forest Zoology (natural history of the more important forest 

 animals). Botany, microscopical practicum. 



Semester 2. Organic Experimental Chemistry. Botany (sys- 

 tematic and morphology of phanerograms), with excursions; also 

 Dendrology. Mineralogy and Petrography (Laboratory). Forest 

 Entomology. 



Semester 3. Factors of Site. General Zoology. Elements of 

 Higher Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry. General Meteo- 

 rology and Climatology. 



Semester 4. Agricultural Chemistry. Forestal Chemistry, 

 especially chemical part of Forest Technology. Pathology of 

 Plants and Protection, including demonstrations and excursions. 

 Geodesy, with special reference to needs of foresters, field work. 

 Geology, with excursions. 



Semester 5. General National Economy. Law with special 

 reference to Forestry. Silviculture, with excursions. Forest 

 Mensuration, with practicum. 



Semester 6. Finance. Utilization and Technology. Forest 

 Protection. Forest Engineering (Building, Surveying, Drawing, 

 etc.). 



Semester 7. Special Economics. Forest Organization and 

 Management. Forest Valuation and Statics. Forest Politics. 



Semester 8. Bavarian Administrative Law. Statistics, theo- 

 retical and otherwise. Forest Administration. History of 

 Forestry. Problems of Forest profit calculations. 



Dr. Fiirst, the former director at Aschaffenburg, where the first 

 two years had been located, makes critical comparisons with the 

 former curriculum, and finds that the number of lectures on 

 fundamental and accessory subjects, as well as the extent to 

 which they are to be heard, have been very essentially reduced. 



Studienplan fiir die Studicrenden der Forstwissenschaft an der Kgl. 

 Ludwig-Maxiinilians-Universitdt Miinchen. Forstwissenschaftliches Cen- 

 tralblatt. November, 191 1. Pp. 590-594. 



Higher education in Finnland was reorganized in 1908 by 

 transferring the same from Evois to the University at Helsingfors. 

 The course is divided into two sections, namely preliminary 

 studies given in the physico-mathematical section of the phil- 



