Jir, FORESTRY IN SPAIlS. 



Heyer, Director of the Forest Academy of Mtinden, in 

 Hanover, and Privy Councillor of the kingdom of Prussia. 



The question gave occasion for a discussion occupying 

 six hours, which was conducted with ability, and listened 

 to throughout with marked attention, the sederunt, com- 

 mencing at 8 A.M., being continued with an hour's interval 

 till three o'clock in tiie afternoon. It appears to have 

 been a continuation or resumption of a discussion of the 

 same subject at Mtihlhausen the year before. Two dis- 

 tinguished students of forest science had been appointed 

 to open the discussion by reading papers, each stating the 

 case in favour of that one of the arrangements which he 

 approved. 



The discussion was opened by Oberforstmeister Pro- 

 fessor Dankelmann, Professor of the School of Forestry 

 at Neustadt-Eberswalde, in Prussia, defending the organi- 

 sation of forest academies in preference to the substitution 

 for these of arrangements for the study of forest science in 

 Universities or other seats of learning. 



The second speaker appointed to open the discussion 

 was Dr Von Secketidorff, from Austria, Professor and 

 Councillor of State, who spoke in support of the proposal 

 to combine Schools of Forestry with Hochschulen in which 

 other studies were prosecuted, and stated in reference to 

 an allegation which had been made, that the movement 

 had originated entirely with professors and candidates for 

 professors' chairs, and not with practical foresters, or 

 forest administrators that the opinion held by him he 

 had found shared by numerous forest officials with whom 

 he had been brought into contact in other lands, and 

 more especially by those of them who had studied at 

 forest academies, a very great majority of whom had 

 spoken of a combination of Schools of Forestry with the 

 Hochschulen as a thing demanded by the honourable 

 standing of forest science and of the forest service. 



Before the introducers of the discussion had commenced 

 the delivery of their addresses, several gentlemen, all 

 from Prussia ; had announced their intention to speak in 



