CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



PREFACE --------- ix 



INTRODUCTORY - _____ i 



THE FOREST OF THE ANCIENTS - - - 8 



1. Forest Conditions - - - - - - 9 



2. Development of Forest Property - - 12 



3. Forest Use -------15 



4. Literature -------19 



GERMANY _ - - - - 22 



I. From earliest Times to end of Middle Ages - 26 



1. Development of Property Conditions- - - 27 



2. Forest Treatment ------ 36 



II. First Development of Forestry Methods (1500 



to 1800) - 41 



1. Development of Property Conditions- - - 42 



2. Forest Conditions - - - - 47 



3. Methods of Restriction in Forest Use - - 49 



4. Development of Forest Policy - - - 52 



5. Personnel ------- 56 



6. Development of Silviculture - - - - 57 



7. Improvement of the Crop- - - - - 67 



8. Methods of Regulating Forest Management - 68 



9. Improvements in Methods of Mensuration- - 73 



10. Methods of Lumbering and Utilization - - 77 



11. Forest Administration ----- 80 



12. Forestry Schools __---- 83 



13. Forestry Literature ------ 84 



III. Development in the Nineteenth Century - - 91 



1. Changes in Property Conditions - - - 92 



2. Forest Conditions ------ 96 



3. Personnel ___ - 97 



