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members were invited to the dinner given by the Mutual Aid 

 Society of Forest Officers in the splendid Salle Hoche, where the 

 hospitality of the French hosts was again unbounded, and the 

 evening was spent in the harmony which usually characterizes 

 such forest reunions. 



There can be no doubt that the Forest Congress of 1900 was a 

 great success, and it may be hoped that future ones will be equally 

 so, and that the cordial and excellent understanding which animates 

 forest officers of all countries, whose subject has no relation to the 

 difficulties of current politics, will tend to improve the mutual 

 relations of these countries amongst themselves, and make for that 

 permanent peace which all those who desire the welfare of the 

 human race must ardently wish for. For the first of the series of 

 great Forest Congresses, no better hosts could be found than the 

 French; for hardly anywhere, after all, is hospitality and good- 

 fellowship so thoroughly understood as in France, especially when 

 the whole of the meeting is animated by the same esprit-de-corps, the 

 same intense interest in all that appertains to the management 

 of forests and the extension over the world of the benefits of 

 forest conservancy. 



