168 AustriorMungary. 



garian forest director, Der europaeische Flugsand und 

 seine Kultur describes in detail the principles and 

 methods of reclamation of shifting sands. 



Most of the Himgarian forestry literature being writ- 

 ten in the Magyar language, is inaccessible to the rest of 

 the world. 



Efforts by private endeavor to promote forestry edu- 

 cation date back as early as 1796, when Forest Inspector 

 Yizner opened an elementary forest school and wrote a 

 forestry catechism. 



This effort was followed in 1806 by introducing the 

 subject in the agricultural school at Keszthely, and in 

 1808 in the school of mines in Schemnitz (Selmecz 

 banya), a (Jerman forester Wilkins filling the chair, 

 while a special forest school was established at Hermann- 

 stadt in 1817. 



The forestry courses at Schemnitz were enlarged and 

 the school re-organized in 1846 and again in 1873 ; one 

 of the changes being the use of the Hungarian language 

 in its instruction, which had originally been in (Jerman. 



In 1904 the course which was 3 years and only option- 

 ally 4 (one year for engineering education) was made 4 

 years for all, and is obligatory for all higher grade State 

 officials. 



In Croatia-Slavonia, which is in many respects separ- 

 ately administered, an agricultural and forestry school 

 exists at Kreutz (Koros) with a three-year course. 



For the lower service four schools of two-year courses 

 have been established by the government, the instruc- 

 tion being given by practitioners, and some of the 

 students receiving free tuition. 



