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director, 10 professors, and 78 students. The Forestry 

 School at Grosse-Schonebeck and the forestry courses to 

 the Army Forestry Battalion are for the training of lower 

 forestry officials. At the former school are four professors, 

 at the latter eleven, all of them practical foresters. 

 Saxony has an excellent forest academy at Tharand, with 

 ten professors and assistants. In "Wurtemburg instruction 

 is given at the Royal Agricultural Academy at Hohen- 

 heim and at the University of Tubingen. In Baden the 

 forestry department of the Carlsruhe Polytechnic has 40 

 students. Bavaria has a forest academy at Aschaifenberg, 

 with a director and seven professors, in addition to which 

 are six chairs of forestry in the University of Munich ; 

 Hesse-Darmstadt has a forestry institution attached to the 

 University of Giessen ; and Saxe- Weimar has possessed one 

 since 1808, with a director and four professors. In Swit- 

 zerland the department of forestry forms the fifth division 

 of the Federal Polytechnic School at Zurich, in which are 

 30 students. France possesses a School of Forestry at 

 Nancy, and one of forest guards at Barres, in addition to 

 several agricultural schools and agronomic industrial 

 schools, in which forestry is taught. Russia has four 

 schools viz., the Agricultural and Forestral Academy at 

 Petrovsk, near Moscow, the Agronomic Institute at St. 

 Petersburg, with courses in sylviculture j the Forest School 

 at Lissino, and the Forest Division of the Agricultural 

 Institute at New Alexandria. There is an Italian School 

 of Forestry at Vallombrosa ; a Spanish School of Forest 

 Engineering at San Lorenzo del Escurial, near Madrid ; a 

 Danish school, attached to the Royal Veterinary and 

 Agricultural College at Copenhagen ; and a Swedish 

 forest institute at Stockholm, besides 13 private elemen- 

 tary schools. In the United States forestry is taught in 

 the State Agricultural College at Lansing, in Michigan 

 State, which possesses a good labelled arboretum and a 

 large collection of native and exotic trees under cultiva- 

 tion. Great Britain alone, which needs more attention 

 than any country in the preservation of what forests she 

 has left, possesses no school whatsoever.' 



