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cameralists at most of the German universities and many 
of the professors prepared textbooks for the purpose. At 
least three of these professors deserve mention, Beckman, 
Jung and Trunk. 
The first, J. Beckman, professor of political economy 
at Gottingen, one of the most noted cameralists, was 
author of a work in forty-five volumes on the Principles 
of German Agriculture (1769), in which he devotes 
sixty-one pages to forestry, giving a complete system of 
forestry with extracts from all known forestry writings. 
J. H. Jung, who gave a special course on forestry 
at the Kameralschule of Lautern, published a textbook 
in 1781 in which forest botany was well treated. 
J.J. Trunk, who was Oberforstmeister in Austria, as 
well as professor at Freiburg, was the most prominent 
of the three, and wrote a comprehensive work full of 
practical sense (Neues vollstindiges Forstlehrbuch oder 
systematische Grundsitze des Forstrechtes der Forst- 
polizet und Forstékonomie, nebst Anhang von ausland- 
tschen Holzarten, von Torf und Steinkohlen, 1789). 
While at first the ephemeral writings, especially the 
polemic ones of the empiricists, found room in literary 
and cameralistic magazines, the need of a professional 
journal first found expression in 1763, in Stahl’s Allge- 
meines Gkonomisches Forstmagazin, which ran into 
twelve volumes, and contains many articles important 
to the history of forestry, and is especially rich in its 
references to foreign literature. 
Two continuations of the magazine under different 
editorships were of less value. - But von Moser’s Forst- 
archiv, running from 1788 to 1807 with its thirty vol- 
