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need for experiments on forest soils, the necessity of having good 

 botanical forest maps, and the improvement of systems of forest 

 transport. 



The final sitting of the Congress was a general one, and was 

 very largely attended, for there were many French and other 

 foresters interested in the important question of the permanency 

 of the Forest Congresses, and whether such Congresses should be 

 held as a separate institution, or whether they should he held at 

 the same time as, and as a section of, the Congresses of Agri- 

 culture. After a long discussion, it was finally agreed that there 

 were many advantages to be obtained from the Forest Congress 

 being made a branch of that of Agriculture. The President, 

 then, M. Daubree, closed the sittings by thanking the members 

 for their presence, and for the valuable assistance they had 

 afforded to the important discussions. 



The visit of the members of the Congress to the forest exhibits 

 of the different countries at the Exhibition, was made on the 

 afternoon of the 8th. The members met in front of the splendid 

 Forest Palace, and began their sightseeing with the magnificent 

 pieces of timber lying outside, which were explained and discussed 

 by MM. Rudolph and Bouvet. These pieces consisted of huge 

 logs of oak and silver fir. Then we visited, led by M. Thil, the 

 French forest exhibit, with its splendid collections, its beautiful 

 photographs and water-colour pictures of mountain restoration 

 works, and its well-arranged collection of hunting trophies. In 

 turn we then explored, in each case under the guidance of the 

 officers in charge, the great collections exhibited by Russia, 

 Austria, Hungary, Eoumania, Canada, the United States, Japan, 

 and Sweden. From the Forest Palace we passed to the Trocadero, 

 visited the Algerian section, the exhibits of the Imperial Russian 

 Apanages in the Siberian Court, and the collections of British 

 India and West Australia. 



The most important of the collections exhibited were, after the 

 French Government one, those of Russia, Austria, and Hungary, 

 between which there was little difference to be noted in respect 

 to excellence. The exhibits of Roumania, Canada, Sweden, 

 Japan, and the United States of America were also of import- 

 ance ; while of those which were housed apart from the Forest 

 Palace, the most noticeable undoubtedly were those of British 

 India, West Australia, Algeria, Russian Siberia, and the French 

 Indies. 



