178 Austria. 



and the Austrians are vying successfully with the 

 Germans in this direction. The names of Fioceli, 

 Pokorny, Bohm, Wiesner, Molish, Willkomm, Hempel 

 and Kemer in the direction of forest botany, Wessely, 

 von Lorenz-Liburnau, Feistmantel, Dimitz, Wachtl 

 (Entomology), Do mbrowski (encyclopedia 1886), Exner, 

 Janka (wood technology) Guttenberg (forest mensur- 

 ation and regulation), von Seckendorff, Schiffel (forest 

 mensuration), Cieslar, Reuss, Bohmerle, Hufnagl, 

 Marchet, and many others are familiar to all German 

 readers. In addition a very considerable literature in 

 the Bohemian language is in existence, some in the 

 Italian by Austrian authors, and some in the Slavonian. 

 The magazine literature began with publications 

 by various forestry associations which became active 

 after 1848. At the present time weelky, monthly, 

 bi-monthly, quarterly, yearly and irregular publi- 

 cations to the number of not less than 14 in German, 

 in addition to several in Bohemian, may be counted, 

 among which the monthly Centralblatt fiir das 

 Gesammte Forstwesen, in existence since 1875, and 

 the weekly Oesterreichische Forstzeitung, since 1883, 

 are perhaps the most widely known. 



HUNGARY. 



Hungary is mainly a fertile plain, traversed by the 

 Danube and Theiss, an agricultural country, with the 

 forest confined to the hilly portions, to the mountain- 

 ous southern provinces of Slavonia and Croatia, and 

 to the Carpathians, which bound it on the north and 



