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The former, without occupying himself with literary 
work, laid down in his expert reports and in his working 
plans many instructions, which form the basis for orderly 
management and silviculture far ahead of the times. 
Zanthier, writing considerably (especially Kurzer sys- 
tematischer Grundriss der praktischen Forstwissen- 
schaft, 1764), is also notable as the founder of the first 
forestry school (at Wernigerode), 1763. 
Another of this class of better educated practitioners, 
and co-worker with the former two, was von Lassberg, 
who in 1764-1777 organized the Saxon forests. 
An interesting incident in the life of the last three 
men is their journey to Denmark and Norway, whither 
they were called to organize the management of the 
forests connected with the mines. 
Another prominent forest manager of the last half of 
the century, whose literary work is to be found only in 
various excellent official instructions, among which is 
one for the teaching of foresters, was the head of the 
Hessian forestry service, a-nobleman, v. Berlepsch. 
Of the cameralists who helped to make forestry liter- 
ature, six or. seven deserve mention. These, men of 
education and polyhistors, were either at the head of 
affairs or else professors at universities, where they in- 
cluded forestry as one of the branches of politieal 
economy. 
The credit of the firet really systematic presentation 
of forestry principles and rules, as developed at the 
time, belongs to Wilhelm Gottfried von Moser, a pupil 
of von Langen, who served in various principalities, and 
finally with the Prince of Taxis. In his Principles of 
Forest Economy, published in 1757, which for the first 
