246 France. 



brought out treatises on forest management, which 

 include all branches of the subject. 



According to Huffel, the foresters of this period 

 (Louis XV and XVI) were of superior character, and 

 forestry in France the first in the world; the writings 

 of French authors were being translated into German 

 and studied by foreign foresters. He has to admit, 

 however, that the majority of these authors were 

 not really members of the forest service. 



In 1836 appeared Parade s, Cours Elementaire de 

 Culture des Bois, an excellent book, recording the 

 teachings of Hartig and Cotta. This seems to have 

 been all-sufficient until 1873, at least. Such things 

 as yield tables are still a mere wish, when Tassy wrote 

 his Etudes, etc., in 1858, while de Salomon a little later 

 reproduced Cotta's yield tables, and to this day this 

 needful tool of the forester is still almost absent, at 

 least in the literature of France. Nanquette, Broillard, 

 Bagneris, Puton, Reuss, Boppe, all directors or pro- 

 fessors at the forest school, enriched the French 

 literature by volumes on silviculture and forest 

 management, and Henry on soil physics. He also 

 translated from the German Wollny's Decomposition 

 des matures organiques. It is claimed by Guyot, that 

 a truly "French science" (!) of forestry dates from 

 Broillard 1 s Cours d'amenageme?it in 1878. Demont- 

 zey's Reboisement des montagnes, 1882, is a classic 

 volume. Of more modern book literature may be 

 mentioned three voluminous publications, namely 

 Traite des arbres by Mouillefert (1892-1898) in 3 

 volumes, and Traite d' exploitation commerciale des bois 

 by Matthey in two volumes, and Guyot's, Cours de 



