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SCHOOLS OP FORESTRY. 



in the forests. This is followed by an uninterrupted theoretical course 

 of two years. The need of this change had been for some time felt.^ 



The aids to education in this department are: 



(1.) A collection of instruments employed in forestry; implements for 

 wood-working; measuring iustriimeuts ; models for technical work in 

 ■wood-products; making of coal-pits, drying-ovens, and coal-kilns, &c. ; 

 a collection of hunting implements and apparatus. 



(2.) A forest-garden of 10 waldmorgen (8^ acres), near Kiddagshausen. 



GRAND DUCAL FOREST SCHOOL AT EISENACH, SAXE-WETMAR. 



This institution was founded in 1808 by the late Oberforstrath Konig, 

 at first as a private enterprise at Ruhla, but in 1830 it was adopted as a 

 state institution and has since been under state control. 



Forests for instruction, Eisenach, Wilhelmsthal, and Kuhla. The 

 course of instruction embraces two .years. In the forestal lectures, ex- 

 cursions, and practical exercises of the summer semester foreign students 

 of forestry may participate. 



FOREST-EDUCATION IN AUSTRIA. 



The present organization in Austria provides three grades of institu- 

 tions for instruction in forestry, viz : The Imperial High School of Ag- 

 riculture and Forestry at Vienna, Middle Schools, and Lower Schools.* 



tory education, but are not required to bring the certificates like those expected from 

 native Hessians. The statutes of the university prescribe, in detail, the examinations 

 to be passed for literary degrees, but our limits will not permit us to include them in 

 this connection. 



Native Hessians must bear two examinations, the preliminary and the departmental, 

 The first of these comprises mathematics, including algebra, geometry, and the ele- 

 ments of differential and integral calculus, physics, in eluding mechanics, and chem- 

 istry, and may be passed by the student without reference to tho duration of his at- 

 tendance at the university. The departmental examination comprises every branch 

 of forestal science, besides botany, national economy, and agriculture. 



We are indebted to Dr. Richard Hess (director since 18C8) for documents and other 

 information relating to this institution. The attendance has been as follows since 

 1869: 



» Ueier den Foratlichen Unterricht an polytechnischen Lehranstaten. Braunschwig, 1S62. 



2 In 1833 a forest academy was established at Mariabrunn, the premises occupied being 

 an old monastery near Schoenbrunn, in the suburbs of Vienna. It was at the entrance 

 of the beautiful mountain forest of Wienerwold, and its ample buildings furnished 

 abundant facilities for every purpose of instruction, including laboratories and collec- 

 tions. It was reorganized in 1867, made an experimental station in 1872, and discon- 

 tinued in 1875, under a decree dated April 10, 1872, establishing the High School of 

 Agriculture at Vienna. The forest section of the institution was opened October 12, 

 187r), taking the place of that at Mariabrunn. 



The course of instruction before the change occupied three years, and in the fund- 



