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THE FOREST SCHOOL AT EBERSWALDE. 239 
price of the implement is always stated on the label. The forest 
protection department contains models of erections for protecting 
young plants from frost, insects, animals, etc. The third division 
is rather a large one, containing the various tools used for felling 
timber and preparing it for sale, such as axes, saws, apparatuses 
for numbering felled timber, bark stripping tools, etc. The wood 
transport section is perhaps the most interesting of the whole, and 
consists principally of models of timber slides, sledges, rafts, 
tramways, etc., for the removal of timber from the forest, many of 
the specimens being models from actual erections in the Black 
Forest, and are very ingenious contrivances. The raw product 
division comes next, with specimens of the various barks and 
tanning materials in the raw condition, together with the smaller 
woods which are less frequently utilised. The wooden products 
occupy a considerable space, with specimens and models of almost 
every imaginable article that wood can be turned into, with the 
tools necessary for their manufacture. The seventh division, 
utilisation of raw products, exhibits the various ways in which 
seeds, etc., can be utilised ; models of factories, and inventions for 
the extraction of tar, resin, etc.; specimens of coniferous timber 
tapped for resin, wood paper, peat, charcoal burning, and various 
other specimens and models of great interest in forest economy. 
The eighth division is devoted to the various instruments used in 
calculating the height and cubic contents of trees, and also a 
number of specimens and sections showing the growth at different 
periods in various timber species, and the results of thinning, ete. 
The last division is devoted to the relics of the chase, or rather its 
bearing on forest management, containing specimens of traps and 
snares used for trapping the injurious animals, and means of 
encouraging the useful animals and birds. Casts of the footprints 
of various animals are shown in plaster of Paris; and nesting 
boxes and other means and appliances for providing accommodation 
for the insectivorous birds show the great importance attached to 
their encouragement in German forests. In addition to these nine 
departments are a few cases containing specimens of the more 
common fungi and parasites which injure standing trees and seed- 
lings, and also diagrams and tables setting forth the result of 
various experiments in transplanting and thinning. A complete 
catalogue of the whole collection is to be found in the museum for 
reference, while several other explanatory books and pamphlets are 
laid about here and there for providing further information. The 
