SWITZERLAND. 
The interest which we have in the development of for- 
estry in this small territory, of somewhat less than 
16,000 square miles with over three million people, lies 
in the fact that it is a republic, or rather an aggregation 
of republics, the oldest in existence, and that, occupying 
an Alpine mountain country, it has developed a unique 
co-operative policy of forest protection. Being largely 
German by origin and sentiment, German influence on 
the development of forestry methods, outside these ad- 
ministrative measures, has here been as strong as in 
Austria. 
Switzerland did not exist as a power in name until 
the 17th century, and as a unit not until the reconstruc- 
tion of 1815, and in its present settled condition and 
constitution not until 1848, although the nucleus of its 
A very good brief statement of present conditions of forestry in Switzerland 
with some historical references may be found in Handw6rterbuch der Schwei- 
serischen Volkswirthschaft, Berlin 1903 with two chapters by Dr. J. Coaz and 
Prof. C. Bourcgots. 
F. FANKHAUSER, Geschichte des bernischen Forstwesens bis in die 
neuere Zeit, Bern 1893, which gives insight into the developments in one of the 
cantons, beginning in 1804, 
LANDOLT, Ueber die Geschichte der Waldungen und des Forstwesens, 
Zurich 1858. 
Lévolution forestitre dans le canton de Neuchittel, Histotre-Statistique 
1896. 
BURRI, Die Kulturgeschichtliche Entwicklung und wirthschaftliche 
Bedeutung des schweizerischen Waldbestands, Luzern 1898, 
MEISTER, Die Stadtwaldungen von Zilrich 2d ed. 1908 exhibits on 225 
pages in great detail the history and methods of management of this remarkable 
city forest of only about 3,000 acres. 
Report to the British Foreign Office on Swiss Forest Laws, by CONWAY 
THORNTON 1888 gives a very satisfactory exposé of the earlier legislation. 
