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to the forestry branch, the chief branch of his work for the 

 forestry student. A room each is devoted to the sections of 

 forest surveying and forest mathematics, with adjoining 

 professors' and assistants' rooms. A large room is devoted 

 to exhibits of the different kinds of woods, with a fine lecture 

 hall and professors' and assistants' rooms close by. On the 

 next floor we have a hall devoted to the exhibition of the 

 implements and instruments used in the woods for various 

 forest operations, such as sowing, planting, trenching, pruning, 

 felling, etc., a very complete collection. In this hall, which 

 is a very large one, is also exhibited a fine collection of the 

 products and articles fashioned from wood by the implements 

 exhibited, e.g., all stages in the manufacture of matches, fashioning 

 of cart wheels, rakes, harrows, etc. The walls are hung with 

 numerous photographs of felling operations, logging, planting, 

 etc. This opens into another large room which is devoted 

 to models and general forest products. We see here an almost 

 unique set of models required for the extraction and transport 

 of forest produce, such as slides, sledges, rope-ways, bridges, 

 etc., etc. The collection of what are known as the minor 

 produce of the forest, gums, waxes, edible seeds, tannin, etc., 

 etc., is exhibited here. A fine lecture hall and professors' 

 and assistants' rooms adjoin. 



The above description will show that there is little fault to 

 be found with the arrangements and space devoted to this 

 wonderfully efficient forestry college. With such equipment 

 there is every incentive to professor and student alike, not 

 only to work but to undertake research work in the various 

 branches of forestry. In the Bavarian University the State 

 pays for the upkeep of the major portion of the Forestry Depart- 

 ment, and in return the Government reaps the advantages 

 derived from the very important research work and experimental 

 work in which its professors, many with great European 

 reputations, spend all their spare time. 



3. T/ie Forest Ga^-den and Educational Woods. We come now 

 to our third essential to the proper teaching of forestry, the 

 forest garden and educational woods. It may be said at once 

 that the subject of forestry cannot be taught by the professor, 

 or assimilated by the student, unless efficient instructional woods 

 are available to which the student can be taken during the 

 lecture course, as well as during the practical course, to be 



