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the classes which included forestry, hunting, shooting, fishing, 

 and the various products of all grades of interest connected with 

 woodland craft. Many of those here present would no doubt be 

 more interested if I were to describe in detail the varied exhibits 

 connected with sport ; but in my subject to-day, before such an 

 audience as that of the members of the Royal Scottish Arboi'i- 

 cultural Society, I shall do better to confine myself to the more 

 immediately interesting show that was made by the exhibits 

 representing sylviculture and the utilisation of forest products. 

 It will suffice to tell you that the sporting trophies and the 

 exhibits of sporting weapons made a very fine show; and that 

 fisheries and fish culture, a subject which in France is part of 

 the business of forest officers, who are all "Agents des Eaux et 

 Forets," and not merely forest managers only, were shown in 

 surprising and wonderful detail. Theie one saw tanks with the 

 most valuable of the fish produced in European streams, oyster 

 beds with the live oysters apparently only waiting to be removed 

 for the table, and life-like groups representing the sponge and 

 coral fisheries of the Mediterranean. In the Russian section you 

 saw tubs of preserved sturgeon and barrels of caviare, while nets 

 and fishing implements generally decked the roof and festooned 

 the arches of the handsome central hall. 



The countries whose forest exhibits found place in the Forest 

 Palace were France, Russia, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, 

 Sweden, Japan, Canada, and the United States. The forest 

 exhibitions of the French colonies, the Du^ch and Portuguese 

 colonies, Siberia, Eritish India, Ceylon and Western Australia, 

 were all in the Colonial Section in various buildings dotted 

 about the Trocadero Gai'dens. Those of Italy, Norway, Portugal, 

 Servia, Bulgaria, Finland and Mexico were in the national 

 pavilions in the magnificent Rue des Nations along the Seine. 

 Some countries were not, or hardly, represented at all, such as 

 Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, the 

 South American Republics, and the British colonies other than 

 those already mentioned : the absence of German exhibits, and 

 the lessons likely to be drawn from a comparison of the advanced 

 German methods of forestry, having been a regrettable and notice- 

 able flaw in the international character of the forest portion of the 

 great show. 



The exhibits of the French Section were in two portions : first, 

 that of the Forest Department ; and, secondly, those of private 



