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position to establish such stations being submitted in 

 1868, but their establishment was delayed until 1875, 

 when such a station was instituted at Vienna ia connec- 

 tion with the schools there. The results of the inyesti- 

 gations are published from year to year and have en- 

 riched the forestry literature iq the German language 

 with many important contributions. 



A very active association life exists in Austria, largely 

 due to the influence of the many large private forest 

 owners. Curiously enough the first attempt at form- 

 ing a society of foresters in Bohemia was suppressed by 

 the authorities, probably for fear of revolutionary tend- 

 encies, and the effort simply resulted ia a literary or 

 reading association to obviate the need of private pur- 

 chase of books. Not until 1848, the very year of the 

 revolution, did the Bohemian forestry association be- 

 come a fact, and under the leadership of the large forest 

 owners among the nobility it has become the strongest in 

 Austria, issuing a bi-monthly association journal from 

 the beginning. Another strong local association which 

 dates its beginning as a society for agriculture, back to 

 1770, is the Moravian-SUesian Forestry Association 

 which segregated from the mother society in 1850 first 

 as a section, and, having attained a membership of 1,000, 

 by 1858, constituted itself a separate association in 1886. 

 Besides these, many smaller ones exist in Austria. In 

 1852 a general Austrian forestry association was founded 

 which in 1854 began the publication of a quarterly and 

 held sessions in various parts of the empire ; but by and 

 by the interest seemed to flag, the attendance at the meet- 

 ings became smaller and smaller, and finally the associa- 



