Struktura społeczna i liczebność członków Polskiego Towarzystwa Leśnego

The paper provides information on the social structure and number of members of the Polish Forest Society over the 124 years of its activity. The analysis covers the total number of members, the percentage share of women among the members, their profession and education, degrees and titles, age of the members, institutions where they work, participation in the Society activity of the persons who retired or are on disability pension. The authors describe the changes that occurred during that period regarding the social status of the Society's chairmen and honourable members in individual historical periods: the so−called Galician period between the First and the Second World War and in the last six decades of its activity.