330 ATTACK ON FRENCH FOREST SERVICE. [March 



forests, or against forestry as a science ; nor was any attempt made 

 to show that a lower standard of teaching than that followed at 

 Nancy, would do equally well for the successful management of 

 forest property. 



It will be well, before we conclude, to see what has been done in 

 Germany in the way of forest education, for not only are the 

 Germans an eminently practical people, but Germany possesses the 

 largest area of woodland, administered on a regular system, of any 

 country in Europe. Now, if we turn to their forest records, we 

 shall find that in Germany there are no less than nine forest schools 

 for teaching scientific forestry, with ninety-seven professors, of whom 

 fifty-two are occupied exclusively with the work of the schools, 

 while the remainder are professors at the different German Univer- 

 sities, who give a portion of their time and work to the forest 

 students. All these schools are amply furnished with lecture-rooms, 

 laboratories, museums, and experimental stations. Some of them 

 are separate foundations, while others are engrafted on the different 

 Universities. The nine schools are as follows : — 



1. Eherswalde (Prussia), with a Director, who has the rank of a 



Privy Councillor, and fourteen Professors besides Assistants. 



2. Miindcn (Hanover), one Director, with ten Professors and 



Assistants. 



3. Ascluiffcnhurg (Bavaria), with eight Professors, of whom one 



is Director. 



4. Munich (Bavaria), with six Professors, of whom one is Director. 



5. Tharandt (Saxony), with ten Professors, of whom one is 



Director. 



6. Tiihingcn (Wurtemburg), affiliated to the University. Two 



special Professors of Forestry ; the pupUs follow the 

 lectures of the University for accessory subjects. 



7. Carlsrulic (Baden), three Professors of Forestry, thirteen other 



Professors from the Polytechnic School giving a portion of 

 their attention to the forest pupils. 



8. Giesscn (Hesse), two Professors of Forestry, with two Assistants, 



the other lectures being supplied by twelve Professors from 

 the University. 



9. Sisenach (Grand Duchy of Saxony), four Professors, with one 



Assistant. 

 It is hoped, then, that enough has been said to show that the 

 importance attached to a high standard of scientific forest training 

 in Germany, and up to the present date in France, fully justifies 

 the defeat of the attack lately made in the French Parliament on 

 the Nancy Forest School ; and it is to be hoped that persons 

 interested in the question in Great Britain will not relax their 



