626 SCHOOLS OF FOEESTRY. 



An elementary school of forestry was established at Schueeberg, in 

 Kraio, in 1869, and one at Hinterbrabl, near Vienna, in 1805. 



FOEESTEY INSTRUCTION IN SWITZERLAND. 



The Schiveizerisehe ForsfscMle in Zurich forms the fifth division of 

 the Federal Polytechnic Institution at that place, and was opened in 

 October, ]855. It embraces instruction in architecture, engineering-, 

 mechanical, technical, and chemical applications of the sciences to for- 

 estry, and a general division of philosophy and i^olitical economy. In 

 October, 1871, this school was extended to embrace agriculture. The 

 institution is under the federal department of the interior, and the 

 president of the school council is at present Dr. Kappeler, as its standing 

 representati ve, and the directors of the several divisions are appointed 

 by the federal council of education. Prof. E. Laudoldt is at the head 

 of the forest school, who has the direction of forestal excursions and 

 excercises, and is moreover Oberforstmeister of the Canton of Zurich. 

 The course of the instructions extends to two years and a half, begin- 

 ning in middle of October. The students may hear lectures in the de- 

 partments of agriculture, philo sophy, or political economy. There is a 

 separate laboratory for the agricultural and forestal school. 



The attendance of forest-students at the Federal Polytechnic School 

 at Zurich has been, since 1871-72, as follows : 



Provision is also made for elementary instruction in forestry in the 

 several cantons, and a practical course for communal foresters has been 

 established, as a means for carrying into more efiectual o])eration the 

 federal law of March 24 ,1876, in relation to the high surveillance of the 

 confederation over the police of forests in the elevated regions. For an 

 account of this sourse of instruction the reader is referred to our chap- 

 ter upon reboisement in Switzerland, page 377. 



FORESTRY INSTRUCTION IN FRANCE. 



School of Forestry at N'ancy, France. — This school was established in 

 1825, for the sole purpose of preparing agents for the state forest ser- 

 vice, and foresters charged with the management of woodlands belong- 

 ing to communes and public establishments, the number Of pupils 

 admitted being regulated according to the probable wants of the admin- 

 istration, and varying from 8 to 30, During its first fifty years it sent 

 out 992 young men, the annual average being about 20. The school is 

 under the direction of the Ministry of Finances. 



Besides these, a limited number of Frencli or foreign students maybe 

 admitted, to pursue the course of studies as cxternes. The number of 

 this desciii)tion is variable, and in 1870 was 10, in the two divisions. 



