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especially as regards planting and sowing, but the sub- 
ject of forest management or organization is entirely 
neglected. 
At about the same time (1710) a forest official, v. 
Géchhausen, published Notabilia venatoris, which, how- 
ever, contained little more than a description of the 
species of trees and methods of their utilization. 
About the middle of the 18th century great activity 
began in the literary field. This was carried on by two 
distinct classes of writers, namely, the empiricists and 
the cameralists. The former—the holzgerechte Jager— 
were the “practical” men of the woods who proved in 
many directions most impractical and exhibited in their 
writings, outside of the record of their limited experi- 
ence, the crassest ignorance. The cameralists were edu- 
cated in law and political economy, who, while lacking 
practical contact with the woodswork, tried to sift and 
systematize the empiricists, and to secure for it a tangi- 
ble bazis. 
Some five or six of the empiricists deserve notice as 
writers; the first and most noted of them was Doebel 
(Heinrich Wilhelm) whose book, “Jagerpraktica” 
(hunters’ practice), published in 1746, remained an 
authority until modern times for the part referring to 
the chase. The author was pre-eminently a hunter, who 
worked in various capacities in Saxony, a self-taught 
man with very little knowledge of natural history. 
Being familiar mainly with broadleaf forest he con- 
demned planting and thinning, but described quite well 
for his time the methods of survey, subdivision, estimat- 
ing and measuring and the methods of selection forest 
and coppice with standards. 
