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any period of its history suffered from not being adjacent 

 to such, a forest as is spoken of; and looking at the 

 experience of schools of industry on the Continent, I 

 am satisfied that there is no necessity for the organisation 

 of a School of Forestry in Britain being clogged with the 

 supposition that it must be located in a forest. 



The relative advantages of having forestry, in- 

 cluding under that designation both forest science and 

 forest economy, taught in isolated professional Schools of 

 Forestry, and of having it taught by professors of forestry 

 in Universities and other educational institutions of a 

 like comprehensive character, has been exhaustively 

 discussed in Germany, the birthplace of forestry and of 

 modern Schools of Forestry; and an unequivocal expression 

 of opinion in favour of the latter arrangement was given 

 at a Congress of German Foresters, held in the autumn of 

 1874 at Freiburg, in the Breisgau, in the Grand Duchy of 

 Baden. 



It was the third Congress of these which had been held 

 in Germany, and it was numerously attended, more 

 numerously than either of the preceding meetings, The 

 members of the Congress were from all parts of Germany, 

 and from countries adjacent: 134 were from Baden; 55 

 from Bavaria; 55 from Prussia; 41 from Wurtemburg ; 

 35 from Alsace-Lorraine ; 21 from the Central German 

 States; 15 from Hesse; and there were besides 18 from 

 Switzerland, 3 from Austria, and 1 from Russia 378 in 

 all. In that number were 23 members who were not 

 professional foresters ; a large proportion of the authors 

 of German works on forestry were there, and many 

 Government officials entrusted with the administration of 

 forest management in Prussia, Bavaria, Wurtemburg, 

 Hesse, and Baden. 



Th-3 president chosen was Dr Nordlinger, Forstrath> and 

 then Professor of Forestry at Hohenheim. 



Four subjects had been proposed for discussion, and the 

 first of these was that above referred to, which was stated 



