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position after his nomination to the grade oi Inspecteur in 1878, 

 he acquired a most perfect knowledge of French broad-leaved 

 forests, and was a past master in the conduct of those delicate 

 operations which concern the conversion of coppice-with- 

 standards into high forest. Nevertheless, being a born forester, 

 M. Boppe fully appreciated the fact that the forests of the east of 

 France are not the only existing type, and that such conversions 

 are not the whole of forestry. In consequence, when, in 1881, 

 he was appointed to a professorship in Forestal Sciences at the 

 National School, before beginning to teach, he undertook a tour 

 through the forest regions of France. During this tour he took 

 cognisance of all the varied types of French forests, and studied 

 on the ground the methods of treatment and of exploitation, 

 the utilisation of the wood and of the accessory products. It is 

 to his studies during this long tour that we owe the publication 

 of the two most remarkable works of M. Boppe, his Cours de 

 Technologie Forestiire (1886), a book which was originally written 

 by M. Nanquette, but to which M. Boppe added some valuable 

 information, previously unpublished, on methods of conversion 

 and utilisation of forest products ; and his Traite de Sylvicul- 

 ture (1889). In this book, after setting forth in the clearest and 

 most instructive manner the French methods of treatment, he 

 strove to render justice to other methods which up to this time 

 had been perhaps too much disregarded, such as selection fell- 

 ings in beech coppice, and similar practices, justified by local 

 conditions, and only requiring a little regulation to be rendered 

 quite acceptable by French foresters. 



His desire to study forest conditions on the spot, and to 

 obtain first-hand information from those actually in charge, 

 in the most diverse localities, led M. Boppe often beyond the 

 confines of France. Of these tours he has left us some 

 interesting narratives. I always re-read, with the greatest 

 pleasure, his papers on — Les Forets de la Grande Bretagne 

 (1881); La Foret de Spessart (1881, in collaboration with 

 M. Reuss) ; L Enseignement Forestiere en Baviere et en Autriche 

 Hongrie (1886, in collaboration with M. Reuss) ; L' Organisation 

 Forestih-e en Baviere et en Autriche (1887, in collaboration with 

 M. Reuss). 



In 1900 I had the honour of collaborating with M. Boppe 

 in the publication of his silvicultural treatise Les Foriis (1900). 

 Soon after, unfortunately, his health gave cause for anxiety — 



