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at the same time have become centres for the advancement 

 and development of forestry and the auxiliary sciences. The 

 teaching of forestry is carried on in Prussia at Eberswalde and 

 Munden ; in Bavaria at the High School at Aschaffenburg and 

 the University of Munich ; in Saxony at the School of Forestry 

 at Tharandt ; in Wurtemberg at the University of Tubingen ; 

 in Baden at the Technical High School, Carlsruhe ; in Hesse at 

 the University of Giessen ; and in the Thuringian States the 

 College at Eisenach, besides which lectures on forestry are given 

 at the Agricultural High Schools in Berlin, Bonn, and Halle. 

 At the nine institutions named there are thirty-two lecturers 

 on forestry, eighty-three other lecturers for the education of 

 forest-keepers, and numerous assistants. All the institutions 

 are furnished with abundant means of teaching, with libraries, 

 collections, botanical and experimental gardens, and sometimes 

 special teaching districts are assigned to them. The total 

 number of students of forestry amounted within the last few 

 years to between 400 and 450, of whom about 250 were 

 candidates for the State Forest Service. For the Lower Forest 

 Service also, different schools exist in the various states for 

 theoretical instruction. 



The trial of new methods and the improvement of the existing 

 ones is the work of the German Board of Experimental Forestry 

 which is controlled by the Union of German Experimental 

 Forestry Institutions at Eberswalde. To it belong nine experi- 

 mental institutions in Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemberg, 

 Baden, Hesse, Brunswick, Thuringia, and Alsace-Lorraine. The 

 united interests of German forestry are represented by the 

 " German Forest Union," and by the German Forest Council. 

 At present about 2,000 members belong to the Union. 



At the forthcoming Exhibition of the Royal Agricultural 



Society of England, a portion of the Educational Building will 



be devoted to the subject of forestry. The 



Forestry at the exhibits will consist of plants and timber, 

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diseases, insects, tools, appliances, and 



products, while open-air demonstrations on the nursery treat- 

 ment of seedlings will be given on certain days. 



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