Forest Schools. 243 



and selection forest, an incident almost precisely re- 

 peated in the State of New York in abandoning its 

 State College at Cornell University; and in other 

 respects the two cases appear parallel.* Parade, the 

 successor of Lorentz being imbued with the same 

 heretical doctrines was constantly in trouble, and in 

 1847, a most savage attack in the legislature was 

 launched which threatened the collapse of the school. 

 This condition lasted until Parade's death, in 1864, 

 when Nanquette assumed guidance of the school 

 and steered in more peaceful waters by avoiding 

 all ideas at reforms and innovations, but other- 

 wise improving the character of the school and intro- 

 ducing the third year study. But he, too, was much 

 criticized and in difficulties until 1880; nor was Puton, 

 his successor, free from troubles, until in 1889 a new 

 regime and new regulations were enacted. 



The school is organized on military lines. The 

 students, who intend to enter the State service are 

 chosen from the graduates of the Institute national 

 agronomique of Paris, only a limited number being 

 admitted. It has 12 professors, two for forestry, two 

 each for natural science, mathematics, and one each for 

 law, soil physics and agriculture, for military science 

 and for German. A three year course, which includes 

 journeys through the forest regions of France, leads 



According to others (a reviewer of this volume), the difficulties which befel 

 the institution were financial ones, "the too rapid conversion ii}to timberforest 

 reducing receipts, which the Minister of Finance resented." Guyot's history ot 

 the school, however, leaves little doubt of the above interpretation being correct. 

 In the case of the State College at Cornell University, a later historian might 

 similarly claim financial difficulties, the school having actually been closed for 

 lack of appropriation ; nevertheless political trickery was the real cause of this 

 lack. 



