Schools of Forestry. "9 
schoo] was afterwards transferred to Tharand and be- 
came a State institution. 
The first interest of the State in forestry education 
found expression in a course of lectures in botany, later 
in forest economy, given to the forest officials by 
Gleditsch, professor of botany at the University of Berlin 
(1770), to which was added a practicum at Tegel under 
Burgedorf, who finally became the head of this mixed 
State school, and continued in this position until at his 
death, in 1802, the school was discontinued. 
In imitation of this move by Prussia, a military plant- 
ing school was instituted by Wiirtemberg at Solitude in 
1770. The most noteworthy feature of this school, 
which under various changes lasted less than 25 years, 
was the course of lectures by Stahl, mentioned before. 
Besides this higher school, a lower grade school was 
started in 1783, but its career was even briefer, not more 
than ten years. 
Bavaria organized a forest school at Munich in 1790 
with a four years’ course, and at least three years’ study 
at this school was required of those seeking employment 
in the State service, but without having ever flourished, 
this school, too, collapsed by 1803. 
13. Forestry Laterature. 
. The oldest forestry literature of this period is con- 
tained in the many forest ordinances, which allow us to 
judge from their prescriptions as to the conditions of 
the practice in the woods and as to the gradual accumu- 
lation of empiric knowledge. Of a forestry science one 
could hardly speak until an attempt had been made to 
organize the knowledge thus empirically acquired into 
