262 FORESTRY IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 



association for Bohemia, composed of large owners of forests. This associa- 

 tion has charge of the administrative and financial management of the insti- 

 tution ; the scientific management is carried on by a director. The school 

 has the following corps of teachers : Two professors of forest culture sciences ; 

 one assistant professor of forest culture sciences ; two professors of natural 

 sciences ; one professor of the mathematics and geodetic branches connected 

 with forestry. 



For admission into the school at Weisswasser the following conditions are 

 prescribed; (i) Graduation from the lower real school of three years, or 

 the lower gymnasium of four years; (2) one year's apprenticeship with a 

 forester authorized to receive apprentices. 



The school is divided into two annual courses, each consisting of two 

 "semesters." The first semester begins on the 15th of October and ends 

 a week before Easter ; the second runs from Saturday after Easter until the last 

 of August. The number of students is limited to forty in each annual course. 



The full curriculum of instruction comprises the following subjects : 



1 . Mathematical sciences : 



a. Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, stereometry. 



b. Architectural and geometrical drawing. 



c. Practical surveying. 



d. Forest architecture. 



e. Forest mathematics, 



2. Natural sciences : 



a. Physics, meteorology. 



b. Inorganic and organic chemistry. 



c. Geognosy ; mineralogy in connection with the knowledge of the soil. 



d. Botany — general and special — applicable to forests; physiology of plants. 



t. ZoSlogy, general entomology and special entomology with reference to forests. 



3. Subjects of forestry : 



a. Protection of forests. 



b. Exposition of the Austrian law on forestry, 

 t. Forest culture. 



d. The uses and the technology of forests. 



e. Forest arrangements, taxation and negulation of the yield. 



f. Forest economy. 



g. Art and science of the chase. 



4. Outlines of national economy. 



5. Business style. 



The theoretical instruction is supported by practical lessons and excursions. These are 

 particularly — 



a. Exercises in surveying. 



b. Excursions bearing on natural science. 



c. Excursions bearing on forestry. 



d. Practical problems in forest culture and taxation. 



With the pupils of the second year, before their graduation, an extended 

 excursion is undertaken into regions of special interest to the forester. Ex- 

 aminations take place at the end of every semester, and at the close of the 

 second annual course the pupils have to undergo a general or graduating ex- 

 amination. 



