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Plug-sand und Seine Cultur, von Josef Wessely Gfeneral-Doma- 

 enen-Inspecktor, und Forst-Academie-Direktor, published in 

 Vienna in 1873, I find a list of upwards of 100 books and 

 papers on that one department of the subject, of which 30, 

 in Hungarian, Latin, and German, were published in 

 Hungary alone. 



" According to the statement of one gentleman, to whom 

 application was made by a representation of the Govern- 

 ment at the Cape, for information in regard to what 

 suitable works on Forest Economy could be procured 

 from Germany, the works on Forst-Wissenschaft, Forest 

 Science, and Forst-Wirthschaft, 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 Fetch 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 Measure- 

 ments, &c., 148 ; Forest Technology, 6 ; Forest Zoology, 

 19 ; Peat and Bog Treatment, 14 ; Forest Calendars, 6 ; 

 Forest and Game Periodicals, 27 ; Forest Union and Tear 

 Books, 13 ; Game, 91 ; Forest and Game in Bohemian, 44 



