CONTENTS. 



PREFACE ix 



INTRODUCTORY 1 



THE FOREST OF THE ANCIENTS .... 8 



GERMANY 21 



I, From barlieist times to end or Middle Aoeb . 25 



1. Development of Property Conditions 26 



2. Forest Treatment . . . . .34 



II. First Development of Forestry Methods (IfiOO 



TO 1800) 39 



1. Development of Property Conditions . . 40 



2. Forest Conditions 44 



3. Methods of Restriction in Forest Use . . 46 



4. Forest Policy 49 



5. Personnel ....... 52 



6. Development of Silviculture .... 63 



7. Improvement of the Crop .... 62 



8. Methods of Regulating Forest Management . 64 



9. Improvements in Methods of Mensuration . 68 



10. Methods of Lumbering and Utilization . . 72 



11. Forest Administration ..... 75 



12. Forestry Schools . . . . . .78 



13. Forestry Literature ..... 79 



III. Development in the Nineteenth Century 



1. Changes in Property Conditions 



2. Forest Conditions .... 



86 

 90 

 3, Personnel 91 



