X SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF DR. HESS. 



pamphlets (" Annales forestieres," " Eevue des eaux et forets," 

 &c.), and reviewed several important French works on forestry. 

 In 1868, Heyer was appointed Director of the newly-established 

 forest school at Miinden, and Hess succeeded him as Director 

 of the Giessen forest school and Professor of Forestry there. 

 This post he has held ever since, although he was nominated 

 Professor of Forestry at Vienna in 1877, and to a similar post 

 at Munich in 1884, but he preferred to remain at Giessen. 



Hess was made a Privy Councillor in Hesse Darmstadt in 

 1890, and in the same year, his portrait and a sketch of his career 

 appeared in the Golden Book of the German people among 

 the eleven most distinguished German foresters. He has 

 published several works, which give a true picture of his mind, 

 intelligent, clear and true. The best-known among these 

 are : " Forstschutz," the 4th edition of which was published in 

 1900, of which the present book is chiefly a translation; 

 " Eigenschaften und forstiches Verhalten der wigtigeren in 

 Deutschland einheimischen und eingefuhrten Holzarten " ; 

 " Encyclopiidie und Methodologie der Forstwissenschaft " ; a 

 revision of the 4th edition of Heyer 's " Waldban " ; and " Die 

 Forstbenutzung," a second edition of which was published in 

 1901. 



Hess has travelled all over Germany in order to observe the 

 various aspects of local forestry, also in Austria, Bosnia and 

 Herzegovina. He is one of the most popular and widest 

 known of German foresters, and English-speaking people 

 are greatly indebted to him for the permission he has so 

 generously accorded for a translation into English of the 

 results of his long experience and studies. 



