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school was afterwards transferred to Tharand and be- 

 came a State institution. 



The first interest of the State in forestry- education 

 found expression in a course of lectures in botany, later 

 in forest economy, given to the forest officials by 

 Oleditsch, professor of botany at the University of Berlin 

 (1770), to which was added a practicum at Tegel under 

 Burgsdorf, who finally became the head of this mixed 

 State school, and continued in this position until at his 

 death, in 1802, the school was discontinued. 



In imitation of this move by Prussia, a military plant- 

 ing school was instituted by Wiirtemberg at Solitude in 

 1770. The most noteworthy feature of this school, 

 which under various changes lasted less than 25 years, 

 was the course of lectures by Stahl, mentioned before. 



Besides this higher school, a lower grade school was 

 started in 1783, but its career was even briefer, not more 

 than ten years. 



Bavaria organized a forest school at Munich in 1790 

 with a four years' course, and at least three years' study 

 at this school was required of those seeking emplojonent 

 in the State service, but without having ever flourished, 

 this school, too, collapsed by 1803. 



13. Forestry Literature. 



The oldest forestry literature of thia period is con- 

 tained in the many forest ordinances, which allow us to 

 judge from their prescriptions as to the conditions of 

 the practice in the woods and as to the gradual accumu- 

 lation of empiric knowlige. Of a forestry science one 

 could hardly speak until an attempt had been made to 

 organize the knowledge thus empirically acquired into 



