I. FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO END OF MIDDLE AGES 26
1. Development of Property Conditions 27
2. Forest Treatment 36
II. FIRST DEVELOPMENT OF FORESTRY METHODS (1500 TO 1800) 41
1. Development of Property Conditions 42
2. Forest Conditions 47
3. Methods of Restriction in Forest Use 49
4. Development of Forest Policy 52
5. Personnel 56
6. Development of Silviculture 57
7. Improvement of the Crop 67
8. Methods of Regulating Forest Management 68
9. Improvements in Methods of Mensuration 73
10. Methods of Lumbering and Utilization 77
11. Forest Administration 80
12. Forestry Schools 83
13. Forestry Literature 84
III. DEVELOPMENT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 91
1. Changes in Property Conditions 92
2. Forest Conditions 96
3. Personnel 97
4. Progress in Silviculture 102
5. Methods of Forest Organization 113
6. Forest Administration 120
7. Forest Policy 125
8. Forestry Science and Literature 131
9. Means of Advancing Forestry Science 145
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY 152
1. Property Conditions 157
2. First Attempts at Forest Control 158
3. Development of Forest Policy 162
4. State Forest Administration 167
5. Progress of Forest Organization 169
6. Development of Silviculture 172
7. Education and Literature 175
HUNGARY 178
SWITZERLAND 185
1. Forest Conditions and Property Rights 188
2. Development of Forest Policy 190
3. Forestry Practice 198
4. Education and Literature 200
FRANCE 203
1. Development of Forest Property 203
2. Development of Forest Administration 213
3. Development of Modern Forest Policy 220
4. Work of Reforestation 224
5. Forestry Science and Practice 233
6. Education and Literature 241
7. Colonial Policies 248
RUSSIA AND FINLAND 253
1. Forest Conditions and Ownership 255
2. Development of Forest Policy 261
3. Education and Literature 270
4. Forestry Practice 273