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able works on Forest Economy could be procured from 

 Germany, the works on Forst- IVissenschaft, Forest Science, 

 and Forst- Winhschaft, Forest Economy, in the German 

 language, may be reckoned by cartloads. From what I 

 know of the abundance of works in German, on subjects 

 connected with forestry, I am not surprised that such a 

 report should have been given. And with the works in 

 German may be reckoned the works in French. 



' In Hermann Schmidt's Fach Katalogue, published in 

 Prague last year (1876), there are given the titles, &c., of 

 German works in Forst-und Jagd-Literatur, published from 

 1870 to 1875 inclusive, to the 31st of October of the 

 latter year, amounting in all to 650, exclusive of others 

 given in an appendix, containing a selection of the works 

 published prior to 1870. They are classified thus : 

 General Forest Economy, 93 ; Forest Botany, 60 ; Forest 

 History and Statistics, 50 ; Forest Legislation and Game 

 Laws, 56 ; Forest Mathematics, 25 ; Forest Tables and 

 Measurements. &c., 148 ; Forest Technology, 6 ; Forest 

 Zoology, 19 ; Peat and Bog Treatment, 14 ; Forest 

 Calendars, 6 ; Forest and Game Periodicals, 27 ; Forest 

 Union and Year Books, 13 ; Game, 91 ; Forestry and Game 

 in Bohemian, 44 in all, 652. Upwards of a hundred 

 new books published annually. Amongst the works 

 mentioned is a volume entitled Die Literatur des letzten 

 sieben Jakre (1862-1872) atis dem Gesammtgebiete der Land und, 

 Forst-wirthschaft mit Einschlusz der landw. Gewerbe u. der 

 Jagd, in Deutscher, Franzosischer u. Englisher Sprache Herausg, 

 v. d. BuchJiandl. v. Gerold & Co., in Wien, 1873, a valuable 

 catalogue of 278 pages in large octavo. 



' Since the time of which I have spoken, fifteen years 

 ago, a change has manifested itself in the different lands 

 in which the English language is spoken. By an order 

 of the House of Commons, dated 17th August, 1871, 

 there was printed the "Return to an address of the 

 House, dated 15th May of the same year: a selection of 

 dispatches and their enclosures to and from the Secretary 



