I20 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



fessor of Law), one Assistant Professor of Law, one Professor 

 of Natural History, one Professor of Applied Mathematics, one 

 Professor of Agriculture, one Professor of German, one Pro- 

 fessor of Military Science, and one Inspector for Experiments. 



The conditions for admission to the Nancy Forest School are 

 that all candidates, except one or two from the t^cole Folytechnique, 

 who rarely care to join the Forest Service, must have obtained 

 a certificate at the Institut Agronomique. Each year about 

 loo students qualify for such certificates, and they may choose 

 the Forest Service according to seniority on the list; and those 

 who select this are sent to Nancy. Though not a highly-paid 

 service, there is a good deal of competition to obtain a nomina- 

 tion to the School. 



Each year of study at the School comprises 6^ months of 

 theoretical and 2i months of practical instruction. 



During the first year of theoi-etical instniction, the subjects 

 taught are Sylviculture in all its branches. Botany, Political 

 Economy, Law, Surveying and Road-Construction, German, and 

 Mihtary Science. For the second and last year the subjects 

 taught are Working-Plans, Mineralogy and Geology, Zoology 

 (especially that branch of it relating to insects which attack 

 trees), Agriculture, Building, the treatment of Torrent-beds, and 

 Pisciculture, as the French Forest Service are now in charge 

 of all inland non-tidal waters. 



The practical course, which occupies 2^ months of each year, 

 consists of tours made into the forests in the neighbourhood 

 of Nancy, in the Vosges, and in the Jura, for the purpose 

 of studying Forestry, Natural History, and Surveying. 



The School is splendidly equipped. The museum contains 

 very complete collections, illustrating the courses of Mineralogy 

 and Geology, and with woods, fruits, seeds, and dried specimens 

 of the foliage and flowers of trees. There are also stuffed 

 mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish, and a collection of insects, 

 with sections of wood showing the damage done by them to 

 trees. There is a collection of models of saw-mills, of torrent- 

 beds treated with weirs, of sand-dunes, showing the progress 

 of their afforestation with Pinus Pinaster, and of an apparatus for 

 transporting timber from the mountains, consisting of a rope and 

 pulley arrangement, with carriers working on an incline. There 

 is also a very interesting collection of forest-tools, as well as 

 numerous examples of the uses to which wood is put in 



