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The Royal Wurtemburg Academ)^ at Hohenheim is a School 

 both of Agriculture and Forestry. Its immense edifice, formerly 

 a summer palace of the Wurtemburg kings, is delightfully 

 situated on very high ground nine miles from Stuttgart, Near 

 the buildiag is a fine park and experimental and botanic gar- 

 dens, groves and an arboricultural nursery. The botanic garden 

 covering over twelve acres contains some two thousand species 

 and varieties of plants important in forest and naval economy, 

 and an " exotic garden " of twenty acres specially adapted to 

 forest botany. Near by upon the same mountain range is a 

 forest district of about six thousand acres, embracing a variety 

 of soil and of trees. The institution has an extensive collection 

 of implements used in practical forestry, with models of machines 

 and studies pertaining thereto ; a museum of forest products, 

 an herbarium containing over ten thousand species, and a very 

 interesting collection of microscopic preparations more extensive 

 than I had elsewhere seen, with a curious collection of patholog- 

 ical specimens, illustrative of diseased malformation and some 

 seven thousand specimens of fruits and seeds. Great varieties 

 of fine wood showing the texture and grain, are exhibited in 

 the museums of all Forest Schools, but this is a remarkable 

 collection of "microscopic specimens" — transverse sections of 

 "wood thin as the finest paper arranged in books as photographs 

 are set in the spaces of an album. Held up to the light, 

 these thin sections are translucent, almost transparent, and show 

 the most delicate shades in the grain of the wood. Here is also 

 a collection of noxious insects and all animals harmful to trees. 

 The insects are shown in all their progressive s,tates, as eggs, 

 larvae, pupa or chrysalis, caterpillar and moth, with their nests, 

 and perforations in the stems or branches, and with samples of 

 the trunk, bark, branch, root, leaf, cone or fruit, both sound 

 and injured. For a careful comparison, the healthy and dis- 

 eased specimens are placed side by side. 



The curriculum fills two years, and in the forest department 

 embraces among others the following topics : Forest Economy; 

 History and Literature of Forest Economy ; Forest Products, in- 

 cluding Forest Botany, Sylviculture, Forest protection. Tech- 

 nical properties of timber, Uses of forests and forest technology ; 

 Forest administration including mensuration of trees and forests, 



