SHOET BIOGBAPHICAL NOTICE OF 

 DE. EICHAED HESS. 



EICHARD ALEXANDER HESS was born on the 23rd of June, 

 1835, in Gotha. His father, Karl August Hess, was Privy 

 Councillor and Member of the Board of Eevenue at Coburg, 

 where Hess passed his early youth. In 1849, his father 

 became President of the Board of Eevenue at Gotha, and 

 Hess continued his studies there. After leaving school, he 

 was at first inclined to a military career, but in 1854 decided 

 to become a forester and studied practical forestry and at the 

 same time entomology and botany in the Georgental Eevier, 

 under Oberforster, afterwards Forstrat, Kellner, and Forst- 

 meister Schrodter, both distinguished men. In 1855 56, 

 he attended the Bavarian forest school at Aschaffenburg out of 

 which he passed first among thirty-four candidates. From 

 1856 till 1858, he attended classes in Law, Finance, and 

 Natural Science at Gottingen. 



He entered the State forest service of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 

 1858, and was appointed, in 1859, to the charge of the forest 

 range Gehlberg, in the Thiiringer Wald. The reigning Duke 

 was extremely fond of the chase, so that forestry was then 

 subordinate to game-preserving in the State forests. This 

 ^ subordination of forestry to game induced Hess to write on 

 the subject to the Forst-imd-Jagdzeitung, of which Dr. Gustav 

 ^H-ess, Professor of Forestry at Giessen, was then editor. 

 This paper was not published, but it led to his visiting 

 Heyer at Giessen, and he thus formed a friendship with one 

 of the most distinguished of German foresters. 



Heyer made him French correspondent to the Forst-und 

 Jagdzeitung, and he, translated a number of French forest 



