86 Germany. 



Sylvicultures aconomica, written by the Saxon director 

 of mines, Hans Carl v. Carlowitz. 



This book, while containing quaint and amusing 

 ideas, gives many correct rules for silvicultural me- 

 thods, especially as regards planting and sowing, but 

 the subject of forest management or organization is 

 entirely neglected. 



At about the same time (1710) a forest official, v. 

 Gochhausen, published Notabilia venatoris, which, 

 however, contained little more than a description of 

 the species of trees and methods of their utilization. 



About the middle of the 18th century great activity 

 began in the literary field. This was carried on by 

 two distinct classes of writers, namely, the empiricists 

 and the cameralists. The former the holzgerechte 

 Jdger were the "practical" men of the woods who 

 proved in many directions most unpractical, and ex- 

 hibited in their writings, outside of the record of their 

 limited experience, the crassest ignorance. The 

 cameralists were educated in law and political economy 

 and, while lacking practical contact with the woods- 

 work, tried to sift and systematize the knowledge of 

 the empiricists, and to secure for it a tangible basis. 



Some five or six of the empiricists deserve notice 

 as writers; the first and most noted of them was 

 Doebel {Heinrich Wilhelm) whose book, Jdgerpraktica 

 (hunters' practice), published in 1746, remained an 

 authority until modern times for the part referring to 

 the chase. The author was pre-eminently a hunter, 

 who worked in various capacities in Saxony, a self- 

 taught man with very little knowledge of natural 

 history. Being familiar mainly with broadleaf forest 



