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droit forestier in two volumes. A very complete 

 work on valuation of damage under the misleading 

 title Incendies en foret was published by Jacquot 

 in 1903. 



But the latest and perhaps most ambitious work 

 in the French language and especially of intense 

 interest from the historical point of view, tracing 

 not only the development of forest policies but of 

 silvicultural and managerial practices in France, is 

 G. Huff el's Economie Forestiere in three volumes 

 published 1904-1907. 



There should not be forgotten as among the non- 

 professional promoters of forest questions, Chevandier, 

 a chemist and manufacturer, who, in 1844, made in- 

 vestigations regarding the influence of irrigation on 

 wood growth and on the influence of fertilizers, and 

 in connection with Wertheim, laid the foundation for 

 timber physics. 



One bi-weekly magazine, Revue des Eaux et Forets, 

 in existence for 50 years, the successor to the Annates 

 forestieres, begun in 1808, satisfies the needs of current 

 literature, besides the journals of various forestry 

 associations, among which the Bulletin de la Societe 

 de Franche Comte et Belfort has for a long time taken 

 a prominent rank. 



A very active propagandist literary and association 

 work has within the last decades been inaugurated, 

 and forestry associations of local character abound. 

 Among these the "Touring Club," a sporting associ- 

 ation with some 16,000 members in 364 branches is 

 active by writing out prizes and promoting waste 



