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The staff of the faculty is nine professors and eleven lecturers of varying grades ; this large establishment (which is reinforced by additional lecturers from Goettingen, when necessary) is due both to the fact that basic science subjects, as well as the professional subjects, are taught at Hann-Muenden, and to the fact that a forest research department is an integral part of the faculty. 25. It was the view of the Dean of the faculty (Professor Lemmel) that the basic sciences should be taught with a forestry bias whenever possible, and he favoured the present system ; it is questionable, however, whether such a system could be economically justified in event of the school moving to Goettingen, where the facilities of other science faculties would be available. 26. The Research Department, which receives a State grant, consists of the following nine branches : (1) Soil Sciences. (2) Botany and Mycology. (3) Zoology. (4) Wood Technology. (5) Forest Management. (6) Working Plans and Policy. (7) Silviculture. (8) Meteorology. (9) Game. Research is thus conducted by all nine professors in addition to their lecturing duties, which, though by no means onerous, claim precedence. Entrance Qualifications to Hann-Muenden 27. After passing his final school examinations (High School Leaving Certificate) at eighteen years of age, the prospective professional forester must, if he is a State probationer, submit his school results and personal record to the Regional Forestry Headquarters (Landes-forstamt); if considered suitable he then undergoes a period (usually of one year) of practical training, during which he is to acquire at least a general conception of forestry under the supervision of specially selected forest officers who submit written reports on the apprentice. An " enrolment committee," consisting of (a) several Professors of the Faculty of Forestry, (b) representatives of the Public Service, appointed by the Minister of Education, and (c) an elected representative of the students (a member of the society known as Asta), makes the final selection on the evidence of scholastic and practical training records. 28. The normal annual intake of students is between twenty and thirty ; so keen, however, was the post-war interest in forestry that a hundred students (mostly exservicemen) are expected to graduate in 1949. The Course 29. The full forestry course occupies four years. The first two years are mainly devoted to the basic sciences ; the last two years to the study of forestry and applied subjects. The academic year is divided into two terms, April to August, and October to March. Very little lecturing is done in the winter terms of the second and fourth years, when, in preparation for preliminary and final examinations respectively, there is an increased proportion of field exercises and time for special studies and revision. At least one day and a half per week during terms are spent in adjoining forests. Vacation tours are limited to allow students to earn wages in forest work —often necessary to meet academic expenses. 30. The syllabus, which is summarised in Table (1), indicates the proportional lecture emphasis on the various subjects.

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