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became the teacher of most of the present practitioners. 

 Finally he became the head of the forest department ia 

 the Ministry of Appanages where he remained until his 

 death ia 1902. He is the author cf several classical 

 works on silviculture, forest mensuration, forest man- 

 agement, etc., and, in conjunction with Dr. W. A. 

 Tichonoff, published an encyclopaedic work ia three 

 volumes. In the first volume, Bussland's Wold (1890), 

 which has been translated into German, the author 

 makes an extended plea for improved forestry practice 

 and describes and argues at length the provisions of the 

 law of 1888. In 1895 he published a history of forestry 

 in Germany, Prance and Eussia. Of other prominent 

 foresters who have advanced forestry in Eussia we may 

 cite * Count Vargad de Bedemar, who made the first 

 attempt to prepare Eussian growth and yield tables in 

 1840 to 1850. 



Professor A. F. Budzshy, who was active at the 

 Forest Institute until a few years ago, developed in his 

 volumes especially the mathematical branches and 

 methods of forest organization. The names of Turshy, 

 Kravchinsky and Kaigodorov are known to Eussian 

 students of dendrology and silviculture, and among the 

 younger generation the names of Morozov, Nestorov, 

 OrloVj and TolsTcy may be mentioned. 



It is well known how prominent Eussian investigators 

 have become in the natural sciences, and to foresters 

 the work of the soil physicists, Otozhy and Dokuchaev 

 would at least be familiar. 



* According to notes kindly furnished by Mr. R. Zon of the U. S. Forest 

 Service. 



