ORIGIN OF THE SCHOOL OF FOREStRt. il 



Director of forest maaagement in Saxony. He at once 

 perceived and pointed out the lack which existed of a 

 skilled staff of officials, who should execute and assist in 

 the execution of his projects, and with a view to meeting 

 this desideratum the forest school of Zillbach was trans- 

 ferred to Tharand in 1811, and was ceded to the Govern- 

 ment on the 12th of May, 1816. Converted into a Govern- 

 ment academy, and furnished with all necessary resources, 

 the school of Tharand, devoted to the instruction of the 

 forest engineers of the State, very soon flourished bene- 

 ficently, attracting to study there the studious youth of 

 many different countries, and serving as the sharp edge 

 of a wedge for the general diffusion of those truths which, 

 spreading themselves a little latter in different countries, 

 proved the occasion of there being opened other schools 

 which take pride in calling themselves daughters of the 

 Saxon academy. 



' In their turn, in Austria and Russia nations which, 

 if they did not take the first step, followed at once the 

 advancing march of the States of Germany there had 

 been organised Schools of Forestry ; those in A ustria hav- 

 ing the character of a private establishment in the begin- 

 ning, but those of Russia being Government institutions 

 from the first. Amongst those, the first established that 

 founded in 1770 by Ehrenwerk in Rotherhaus, in 

 Bohemia continued till 1791. This was succeeded by 

 another, established in the beginning of the present 

 century in Km man ; and coincident with its appearance 

 we meet with the schools of Eisgneb in Moravia, 

 Eisgenstadt in Hungary, and Gratzen in Bohemia. 



' Passing from private seminaries to public and Govern- 

 ment institutions, there were founded the schools of 

 Datschetz in Moravia, and that of Plass in Bohemia, 

 opened in 1823 and 1880, in which there is some Govern- 

 ment intervention, but this is very limited. When the 

 Government was once convinced as was the case like- 

 wise with the Government of Germany of the urgent 

 necessity there was for entrusting the administration of 



