125 years of forestry teaching and scientific research in Croatia

The development of forestry teaching is presented from the establishment of the Agriculture and Forestry College at Križevci on November 19, 1860 to the present clay Forestry Faculty of the University of Zagreb. The paper considers the professional, economic and political aspects of the College, the development of curricular importance of education in these institutions for forestry and wood-technology in Croatia and Yugoslavia. Data are given concerning the teaching staff, laboratories and experiments and the number of graduate students and engineers from 1860 to 1985. Together with activities in research work, publication activities, numbers of doctorate theses, international cooperation, other data appropriate for this jubilee are presented.