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cameralists at most of the Grerman universities and many 

 of the professors prepared textbooks for the purpose. At 

 least three of these professors deserve mention, Beckman, 

 Jung and Trunk. 



The first, J. Beckman, professor of political economy 

 at Gottingen, one of the most noted cameralists, was 

 author of a work in forty-five volumes on the Principles 

 of German Agriculture (1769), in which he devotes 

 sixty-one pages to forestry, giving a complete system of 

 forestry with extracts from all known forestry writings. 



J. H. Jung, who gave a special course on forestry 

 at the Kameralschule of Lautem, published a textbook 

 in 1781 in which forest botany was well treated. 



J. J. Trunk, who was Oberforstmeister in Austria, as 

 well as professor at Freiburg, was the most prominent 

 of the three, and wrote a comprehensive work full of 

 practical sense (Neues vollstdndiges Forstlehrhuch oder 

 systematische Grundsdtze des Forstrechtes der Forst- 

 polizei und Forstokonomie, nebst Anhang von ausldnd- 

 ischen Holzarten, von Torf und Steinkohlen, 1789). 



While at first the ephemeral writings, especially the 

 polemic ones of the empiricists, found room in literary 

 and cameralistic magazines, the need of a professional 

 journal first found expression in 1763, in Stahl's Allge- 

 meines okonomisches Forstmagazin, which ran into 

 twelve volumes, and contains many articles important 

 to the history of forestry, and is especially rich in its 

 references to foreign literature. 



Two continuations of the magazine under different 

 editorships were of less value. But von Meier's Forst- 

 archiv, running from 1788 to 1807 with its thirty vol- 



