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became the teacher of most of the present practitioners. 

 Finally he became the head of the forest department in 

 the Ministry of Appanages where he remained until his 

 death in 1902. He is the author cf several classical 

 works on silviculture, forest mensuration, forest man- 

 agement, etc., and, in conjunction with Dr. W. A. 

 Tichonoff, published an encyclopaedic work in three 

 volumes. In the first volume, Russland's WaJd (1890), 

 which has been translated into German, the author 

 makes an extended plea for improved forestry practice 

 and describes and argues at length the provisions of the 

 law of 1888. In 1895 he published a history of forestry 

 in Grermany, France and Russia. Of other prominent 

 foresters who have advanced forestry in Russia we may 

 cite * Count Vargaci de Bedemar, who made the first 

 attempt to prepare Russian growth and yield tables in 

 1840 to 1850. 



Professor A. F. RudzsTcy, who was active at the 

 Forest Institute until a few years ago, developed in his 

 volumes especially the mathematical branches and 

 methods of forest organization. The names of TursJcy, 

 KravchinsJcy and Kaigodorov are known to Russian 

 students of dendrology and silvicidture, and among the 

 younger generation the names of Morozov, Nestorov, 

 Orlov, and ToJsky may be mentioned. 



It is weU known how prominent Russian investigators 

 have become in the natural sciences, and to foresters 

 the work of the soil physicists, Otozky and Dokuchaev 

 would at least be familiar. 



According to notes kindly furnished by Mr. R. Zon of the U. S. Forest 

 Service. 



