SCHOOLS OF FORESTRY. 



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every week to instrnction ; the rest of the year to practice. There are 

 4 teachers, of whom 1 is an assistant. Scholars in 1876-'76, 8. It has 

 a small library and collections. Tuition free ; board and lodging, 180 

 florins. Common expenses of the school, about 2,770 florins, of which 

 800 are for salaries. Extraordinary expenses, 221 florins. Contribu- 

 tions from individuals, 842; the remainder by the company under whose 

 l)atronage the school is sustained. 



In addition to the foregoing, from the official reports of the ministry 

 of agriculture, we find the following schools of forestry in Austria : 



School of Agriculture and Forestry at Kreutz, Croatia. — 

 Located in the Kreutz, or Krizevz, the capital of a district of the same 

 name, with a railroad station and 3,000 inhabitants, in a beautiful loca- 

 tion between the navigable rivers of the Drave and Save, there exists 

 for the kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia a school for agriculture and 

 forestry as a state institution. 



This school was opened in the presence of Government Commissioner 

 Baltis, who had labored much for its foundation, November 19, 1860. 

 It was expected that at the end of 1877 there 84 forest students would 

 have been graduated. 



One year of forest practice and completion of course in a lower gymna- 

 sium or lower real school, in Austria, required on admission. Expenses, 

 100 Austrian gulden per annum. 



The institution has a director and four professors. Its collections in 

 forestry, mathematical and surveying instruments, are valued at 6,000 

 florins, and its library the same. It has a forest of instruction of 170 

 yocks, or 87 hectares, with oaks reaching 250 years of age. The oak of 

 this forest is worked in periods of 100 years. The course of instruction 

 was formerly two years. It is now three. 



EoYAL Hungarian Mining and Forest Academy at Schem- 

 KiTZ.— A school of mines was founded in 1765 in the mining district of 

 Schemnitz, and regularly established in 1770. In 1807 a forest institute 

 was commenced under Dr. Heinrich David Wilckens, and on the 5th of 

 January, 1808, it received a regular charter. A re-organization of the 

 mining and forest academy was effected in 1846 and again in 1872. The 

 course of instruction is now divided into six classes of studies, viz : 1. 

 Mining; 2. Metal-furnace construction; 3. Iron-furnace construction; 

 4. Machinery used in mining and metallurgy ; 5. Forestry ; 6. Forest 

 engineering. In 1870 the institution celebrated its first centennial, and 

 the year following published a memorial volume giving a historical 

 account of its career and a full statement of present condition. The 

 course continues four years, of which the first two are devoted to gen- 

 eral and preliminary studies, and the last two to special objects.^ 



' The memorial volume gives a list of graduates from the beginning — their nation- 

 ality and occupation follovred. The aggregate gives, Hungarian, 2,958 ; Austria-Sla- 

 vonian, 2,205 ; foreign, 93; nationality unknown, 116. Total, 5,373. Since 1870 the 

 attendance has been as follows : 



We are indebted to the director. Prof. Stefan Farbaky, for ample information con- 

 corning this institution. 

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