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Flug-mnd und Seine Gultwr, von Josef Wessely General-Doma- 

 enen-Inspecktor, und Forst-Academie-Direktor, published in 

 Vienna in 1873, I find a list of upwards of 100 books and 

 papers on that one department of the subject, of which 30, 

 in Hungarian, Latin, and German, were published in 

 Hungary alone. 



" According to the statement of one gentleman, to whom 

 application was made by a representation of the Govern- 

 ment at the Cape, for information in regard to what 

 suitable works on Forest Economy could be procured 

 from Germany, the works on Forsf-Wissenschaft, Forest 

 Science, and Forst-Wirihsehafi, Forest Economy, in the 

 German language may be reckoned by cartloads. From 

 what I know of the abundance of works in German, on 

 subjects connected with Forestry, I am not surprised 

 that such a report should have been given. And with 

 the works in German may be reckoned the works in 

 French. 



"In Hermann Schmidt's Fach Katdlogue, published in 

 Prague last year (1876), there are given the titles, &c., of 

 German works in Font und Jagd-IAteratur, published from 

 1870 to 1875 inclusive, to the 31st of October of the latter 

 year, amounting in all to 650, exclusive of others given in 

 an appendix, containing a selection of the works published 

 prior to 1870. They are classified thus : — General Forest 

 Economy, 93 ; Forest Botany, 60 ; Forest History and 

 Statistics, 50 ; Forest Legislation and Game Laws, 56 ; 

 Forest Mathematics, 25 ; Fore.st Tables and Measure- 

 ments, &c., 148 ; Forest Technology, 6 ; Forest Zoology, 

 19 ; Peat and Bog Treatment, 14 ; Forest Calendars, 6 ; 

 Forest and Game Periodicals, 27 ; J'orest Union and Year 

 Books, 13 ; Game, 91 j Forest and Game in Bohemian, 44. 



