SWITZERLAND. 



The interest which we have in the development of for- 

 estry in this small territory, of somewhat less than 

 16,000 square miles with over three million people, lies 

 in the fact that it is a republic, or rather an aggregation 

 of republics, the oldest in existence, and that, occupying 

 an Alpine mountain country, it has developed a Tinique 

 co-operative policy of forest protection. Being largely 

 German by origin and sentiment, German influence on 

 the development of forestry methods, outside these ad- 

 ministrative measures, has here been as strong as in 

 Austria. 



Switzerland did not exist as a power in name until 

 the 17th century, and as a unit not until the reconstruc- 

 tion of 1815, and in its present settled condition and 

 constitution not until 1848, although the nucleus of its 



A very good brief statement of present conditions of forestry in Switzerland 

 with some historical references may be found in Handworterbuch der Schwei- 

 zerischen Volkswirthscha/t, Berlin 1903 with two chapters by Dr. J. Coae and 

 Prof. C. Bourgeois. 



F. FANKHAUSER, Geschichte des bernischen Forstwesens bis in die 

 neuere Zeit, Bern 1893, which gives insight into the developments in one of the 

 cantons, beginning in 1304. 



LANDOLT, Ueber die Geschichte der Waldungen und des Forst-wesens, 

 Zurich 1858. 



Vevolution forestiere dans le canton de Neuchatel, Histoire-Statistique 

 1896. 



BURRI, Die Kulturgeschichtliche Entwicklung und wirthscha/tliche 

 Bedeutung des schweizerischen Waldbestands, Luzern 1898. 



MEISTER, Die Stadtwaldungen von Zilrich 2d ed. 1903 exhibits on 825 

 pages in great detail the history and methods of management of this remarkable 

 city forest of only about 3,000 acres. 



Report to the British Foreign Office on Swiss Forest Laws, by CONWAY 

 THORNTON 1888 gives a very satisfactory expose of the earlier legislation. 



