THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL EXCURSION. 69 



Germany ; Thomas Sharpe, Monreith, Wigtownshire ; James 

 Shiel, Abbey St Bathans, Grantshouse ; Dr William Somerville, 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, London ; Adam Spiers, Edin- 

 burgh; Fraser Story, University College of North Wales, Bangor; 

 Walter C. Stunt, Lorenden, Kent; James Terris, Blairadam, 

 Kinross ; John Watson, Edinburgh ; James Welsh, Edinburgh ; 

 James Whytock, Dalkeith ; David Wilson, Troon; James Wilson, 

 St Andrews ; Dr John H. Wilson, St Andrews University. 



From Edinburgh the party travelled by the Midland 

 Route to London, thence by Dover and Calais, Amiens, 

 Reims, and Chalons-sur-Marne to Nancy, which was reached 

 about II A.M. on the 25th, The remainder of the day was spent 

 in exploring the town, and on the following morning a start was 

 made with the forestry part of the programme ; and as this latter 

 has been dealt with in detail in the official statements which 

 follow, and in the report on the Excursion by Mr Macdonald, it 

 will be unnecessary here to allude to anything but the general 

 features of the tour. 



The first item on the programme was the far-famed Nancy 

 Forest School. Here the party was met by M. Guyot, Directeur 

 de I'Ecole Nationale des Eaux et Forets; M. Larzilliere, Con- 

 servateur des Eaux et Forets, Nancy ; M. Henry, Professeur 

 d'histoire naturelle, Ecole Nationale des Eaux et Forets, and other 

 members of the staff, who extended to them a hearty welcome. 

 The party was conducted over the School by Professor Henry 

 and one of his colleagues, who pointed out and described the 

 various teaching appliances with which it is so splendidly 

 equipped. In the afternoon a visit was paid to the forest of 

 Champenoux, the chief feature of which is conversion of the crop 

 from coppice-with-standards to high forest. Here M. Cuif, 

 Inspecteur-adjoint des Eaux et Forets, explained the system of 

 management which had been adopted, and described, as the 

 woods were passed through, the various stages in the process of 

 conversion ; and other officers who accompanied the party were 

 Professor Henry, Inspecteurs Camend and Loppinet, and 

 Inspecteur-adjoint Pigeon. Unfortunately, before the tour of 

 the forest had been completed, rain fell heavily, and this inter- 

 fered somewhat with the arrangements. Two objects of interest 

 seen here were the recently formed Arboretum, and the 

 Experimental Station * for exotic trees. In the latter an oak, 

 ^ A list of the trees under test here is given at page 124. 



