90 Germany. 



Wiirttemberg, and at the same time lecturer on mathe- 

 matics, natural history and forestry at the forest 

 school of Solitude (Stuttgart). Although an amateur 

 in the field of forestry, he was a good teacher and left 

 many valuable and wise prescriptions evolved during 

 his administration. 



He compiled in four volumes a dictionary of forest, 

 fish and game practice (Onomatologia forestalis- 

 piscatoria-venatoria, 1772-1781) and founded the first 

 forestry journal. 



Since 1770, forestry courses had been given for the 

 cameralists at most of the German universities, and 

 many of the professors prepared textbooks for the 

 purpose. At least three of these professors deserve 

 mention, Beckman, Jung and Trunk. 



The first, J. Beckman, professor of political economy 

 at Gottingen, one of the most noted cameralists, was 

 author of a work in forty-five volumes on the Prin- 

 ciples of German Agriculture (1769), in which he 

 devotes sixty-one pages to forestry, giving a complete 

 system of forestry, with extracts from all known 

 forestry writings. 



/. H. Jung, who gave a special course on forestry 

 at the Kameralschule of Lautern, published a text- 

 book in 1781 in which forest botany was well 

 treated. 



/. /. Trunk, who was Oberforstmeister in Austria, 

 as well as professor at Freiburg, was the most promi- 

 nent of the three, and wrote a comprehensive work 

 full of practical sense (Neues vollstandiges Forstlehr- 

 buch oder systematische Grundsatze des Forstrechtes, 

 der Forstpolizei und Forstokonomie, nebst Anhang von 



