162 Austria-Hungary. 
position to establish such stations being submitted in 
1868, but their establishment was delayed until 1875, 
when such a station was instituted at Vienna in connec- 
tion with the schools there. The results of the investi- 
gations are published from year to year and have en- 
riched the forestry literature in the German language 
with many important contributions. 
A very active association life exists in Austria, largely 
due to the influence of the many large private forest 
owners. Curiously enough the first attempt at form- 
ing a society of foresters in Bohemia was suppressed by 
the authorities, probably for fear of revolutionary tend- 
encies, and the effort simply resulted in a literary or 
reading association to obviate the need of private pur- 
chase of books. Not until 1848, the very year of the 
revolution, did the Bohemian forestry association be- 
come a fact, and under the leadership of the large forest 
owners among the nobility it has become the strongest in 
Austria, issuing a bi-monthly association journal from 
the beginning. Another strong local association which 
dates its beginning as a society for agriculture, back to 
1770, is the Moravian-Silesian Forestry Association 
which segregated from the mother society in 1850 first 
as a section, and, having attained a membership of 1,000, 
by 1858, constituted itself a separate association in 1886. 
Besides these, many smaller ones exist in Austria. In 
1852 a general Austrian forestry association was founded 
which in 1854 began the publication of a quarterly and 
held sessions in various parts of the empire; but by and 
by the interest seemed to flag, the attendance at the meet- 
ings became smaller and smaller, and finally the associa- 
