OF THE SCllOOL OF FORESTRY. 9 



wealth in Central Europe in byegone times, to arrest 

 which was again and again attempted by legislation in 

 France and other countries, but with little effect, he refers 

 them to what was done in Germany : 



' In the seventeenth century originated in some of the 

 States of Germany the application of technical science to 

 the treatment of forest masses. The rules, the aphor- 

 isms, and the whole of the directions which are compressed 

 in the forestal knowledge of the ancients, are principles 

 indefinite, obscure, uncertain, unconnected, destitute of 

 method or systematized relations. Moser created in 1757 

 the first body of systematic teaching on the subject j and 

 to the impulse given to this by him, and the weighty 

 energy of Langen/ Laspar, Zanthier, and others, are we 

 indebted for the formation of the first plans of scientific 

 treatment of forests begun in 1731 in the forests of the 

 Dukedom of Brunswick. He, in his time, Langen having 

 been the first to do so, perceiving the necessity of entrusting 

 the management of the forests to a specially ed ucated and 

 trained body of officials, possessing all necessary know- 

 ledge and information, with a view to raising up a body 

 of such men, established the first school of forestry in 

 Wernigerode in the year 1772. But others consider as the 

 first school that founded by Zanthier in Ilseriberg, which 

 was followed some years later by the establishment of 

 that by Haase in Lauterberg, that which G. Hartig 

 founded in Hungen in 1791, that founded in Zillbach by H. 

 Gotta in 1795, and various others, all due to the efforts of 

 individuals, and manifesting that essentially practical 

 character which was so requisite to meet the requirements 

 of the time and the conditions in which the distinguished 

 founders were placed, but they lacked means which would 

 allow of there being given to them the influence and 

 development which became needful. 



/ Contemporaneously with the schools there were pro- 

 duced also new methods, or systems of exploitation ; and the 

 names which have been cited are those of men who 

 proved authorities of the highest rank, who have opened 



