620 SCHOOLS OF FORESTRY. 



are shown. The object of the academy is to impart a thorough practi- 

 cal and professional education to those who are to become the owners or 

 managers of estates, and to farmers and foresters in public or private 

 service, and to enable them to become champions of progress among 

 their colleagues in business.^ 



FORESTRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF TUBINGEN. 



Since 1817, the CTniversity of Tiibiogen has had a chair of agriculture 

 and forestry in its faculty for state economy. It has for its object to 

 furnish students with the knowledge necessary for employment in finan- 

 cial and administrative aflairs, and therefore only the more important 

 points of information are presented in the lectures, but they penetrate 

 deeper into the spirit of the different systems of agricultural and forestal 

 economy, with the view of pointing out the motives concerned, and in 

 this manner of rendering their relations to financial matters and to the 

 public interests more fully understood.* 



POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL AT CARLSRUHE, BADEN.' 



This school (established in 1832) has a department of forestry at 

 "which from 30 to 45 students attend, of whom about one-fifth are for- 

 eigners. 



FOREST INSTITUTE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GIESSEN. 



A separate school of forestry was established at Giessen, in Hesse- 

 Darmstadt, by an ordinance dated March 24, 1825, and on the 14th of 

 June, 1831, it was united with the "Ludewigs Universitat," of that 

 place, of which it forms at present the fourteenth department. It is 

 under the supervision of the university authorities and of the minister 



'An account of this academy at Hohenheim is given in detail in the publication re- 

 lating to tho meeting of German agriculturists and foresters at Stuttgart in 1842, under 

 the title of "i>te Eonigliche Wurtemhergische Lehranstalt fiir Land- und Forstwirilischaft 

 in Hohenheim"; also in a publication in 1863, "Die Land- und ForstwirthachaftUsche 

 Akademie, Hohenheim," and in the published account of the semi-centennial celebra- 

 tion of tlie institution, held November 20, 1868, under the special title of " Geschicht- 

 lichis iiber die Land- und ForstwirthscJuiftUche Akademie, Hohenheim, von Professor Dr. V. 

 Fleischer." A concise notice is also given in a pamphlet prepared for the Vienna exhi- 

 bition of 1873, **Der Hiihere Landwirthschaftliche Dnterricht in Wiirtemberg," by Prof. 

 Walter Funke. An account of the organization of this academy is also given in The 

 Journal of Forestry, i, p. 80, in an article written by the Kev. J. Croumbie Brown, LL.D., 

 ■which was also separately published. 



Professor Mathieu, of Nancy, in oescribing this institution, says : "The little king- 

 dom of Wurteraberg, with scarcely two millions of inhabitants, has spared nothing in 

 providing it with whatever could contribute to the success of instruction or to tho 

 pi'ogress of science. This truly liberal spirit has led to the establishment of magniti- 

 cent agricultural galleries, where we find collected, to the number of sixteen hundred, 

 the various tools and machines employed in labors of the field ; elegant rooms filled 

 with forestal collections, implements, woods, and various products ; cabinets in botany, 

 zjology, mineralogy, and geology; instruments for use in studies of physics and for 

 geodesy ; a station for experiments concerning woods, and another for meteorology. 

 Its library numbers 5,500 volumes, and its reading-room contains numerous periodicals 

 in all languages, of which 49 were scientific, agricultural, or forestal journals, and 35 

 were of the political, literary, or illustrated class." — (Bevue des Eaux et ForSts, 1874, 

 p. 194.) 



2 This course of instruction would present little of interest in the practical business 

 of the forester, as compared with the abundant facilities and broad plan of education 

 afforded at the school at Hohenheim. Many of the students of the latter find it, how- 

 ever, to their advantage to attend for some time the lectures of the university for the 

 purpose of gaining a fuller knowledge of the auxiliary sciences. 



» The requirements for admission are as follows : Citizens of the state, who wish to 



