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ROYAL SCOTTISH ABBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



XXV. The Forestry Exhibition at Paris and Some of its Lessons. 1 

 By J. S. Gamble, C.I E., F.R.S., etc. 



There are, no doubt, many members of the Society who visited 

 the great Exhibition which was held last summer in Paris, and 

 were delighted with the many wonderful things which were there 

 collected from all parts of the world. It seems sad to those who, 

 like myself, were not only there as visitors, but took part in the 

 work, that those splendid buildings, those magnificent exhibits, 

 those great records of human industry, art and labour, should 

 now be dispersed and doomed to disappear, so that soon there 

 will remain but few traces of them. It behoves us the more, 

 therefore, to do what we can to take stock of what we have seen, 

 and endeavour, if we can, to draw some lessons from it which may 

 be useful to ourselves, to the United Kingdom, and to its colonies 

 and dependencies. 



Among the most interesting and handsomest buildings in the 

 Exhibition was one which occupied what was perhaps one of the 

 finest sites in Paris, and which could not fail to attract the 

 attention of the visitor. I refer to the "Palais des Forets, de la 

 Chasse et des Cueillettes," a fine building on the left bank of the 

 Seine, just below the Jena Bridge, and almost overshadowed by 

 the Eiffel Tower. It was a huge building, quite an Exhibition in 

 itself, one which, at any other time, would alone have drawn 

 crowds of sightseers; but, in 1900, though it was always 

 thronged, I am afraid that, among so many splendid buildings, 

 such a wealth of beautiful objects and interesting shows, it hardly 

 attracted quite the attention that its contents deserved. This 

 was the home of Classes 49 to 54 of the Exhibition Catalogue, 



1 "Written to be read before the Society at its meetiDg in January 1901. 

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