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The former, without occupying himself with literary 

 work, laid down in his expert reports and in his working 

 plans many instructions, which form the basis for orderly 

 management and silviculture far ahead of the times. 

 Zanthier, writing considerably (especially Kurzer sys- 

 tematischer Grundriss der praktischen Forstwissen- 

 schaft, 1764), is also notable as the founder of the first 

 forestry school (at Wernigerode), 1763. 



Another of this class of better educated practitioners, 

 and co-worker with the former two, was von Lassherg, 

 who in 1764-1777 organized the Saxon forests. 



An interesting incident in the life of the last three 

 men is their journey to Denmark and Norway, whither 

 they were called to organize the management of the 

 forests connected with the mines. 



Another prominent forest manager of the last half of 

 the century, whose literary work is to be found only in 

 various excellent oflBcial instructions, among which is 

 one for the teaching of foresters, was the head of the 

 Hessian forestry service, a nobleman, v. Berlepsch. 



Of the cameralists who helped to make forestry liter- 

 ature, six or seven deserve mention. These, men of 

 education and polyhistors, were either at the head of 

 affairs or else professors at imiversities, where they in- 

 cluded forestry as one of the branches of political 

 economy. 



The credit of the first really systematic presentation 

 of forestry principles and rules, as developed at the 

 time, belongs to WilJielm Gottfried von Moser, a pupil 

 of von Langen, who served in various principalities, and 

 finally with the Prince of Taxis. In his Principles of 

 Forest Economy, published in 1757, which for the first 



