84 Germany. 



time brought out the economic importance of the sub- 

 ject, he discusses in two volumes divided into nine chap- 

 ters the different branches of forestry. 



A mining engineer, J. A. Cramer, came next with a 

 very notable book, "Anleitung zum Forstwesen" (1766) 

 which, although not as comprehensive as Moser^s, treats 

 the subject of silviculture very well. 



Equal in arrogance and opinionated self-satisfaction 

 to any of the empiricists with whom he frequently 

 crossed swords, was the Brunswick councillor, von 

 Brocke, who, as an amateur, practising forestry on his 

 own estate, developed the characteristic trait of the 

 empiricists, namely, a profound belief in his own infalli- 

 bility. He produced, besides many polemic writings, in 

 which he charged the whole class of foresters with igno- 

 rance, laziness and dishonesty, a magnum opus in four 

 volumes, entitled "True bases of the physical and experi- 

 mental general science of forestry," which is an olla 

 podrida of small value. 



Less original, but more fair and well informed, a 

 typical representative of the cameralists, was J. F. Stahl, 

 finally head of the forest administration of Wiirtemberg, 

 and at the same time lecturer on mathematics, natural 

 history and forestry at the forest school of Solitude 

 (Stuttgart). Although an amateur in the field of for- 

 estry, he was a good teacher and left many valuable and 

 wise prescriptions evolved during his administration. 



He compiled in four volumes a dictionary of forest, 

 fish and game practice {Onomatologia forestalis-piscu' 

 toria-venatoria, 1772-1781) and founded the first for- 

 estry journal. 



Since 1770 forestry courses had been given for the 



