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recommendation of Eeamnur in his three memoirs. 

 Semis et Plantations, Exploitation des Bois and Traite 

 de la Physique des Arbres, in which he exhibits consid- 

 erable learning, while Buff on, the great naturalist, 1774, 

 presented several memoirs on forestry subjects full of 

 excellent advice. Varennes de Fenille, another one of 

 the Academicians, is on record with two memoirs 

 on the management of coppice and timber forests. But 

 among the foresters there seems not to have been suffi- 

 cient education to appreciate these writings or to bring 

 forth any contributions to the literature and art until 

 the 19th century. In 1803 we find the first encyclopaedic 

 volimie in Traite de VAmenagement des Forets, which 

 was followed in 1805 by a very incorrect translation of 

 Hartig's Lehrhuch, both by Baudrillart, professor of po- 

 litical economy, who also published in 12 volumes his 

 Traite General des Eau^ et Forets. Dralet, a forester, 

 1807, also brought out a tieatise on forest management, 

 which includes all branches of the subject. 



In 1836 appeared Parade's, Cours Elementaire de Cul- 

 ture des Bois, an excellent book, recording the teachings 

 of Hartig and Cotta. This seems to have been all-suffi- 

 cient until 1873, at least. Such things as yield tables are 

 still a mere wish, when Tossy 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 for- 

 ester is still absent, at least in the literature of France. 

 Nanquette, Broillard, Bagneris, Puton, Beuss, Boppe, 

 all directors or professors at the forest school, enriched 

 the French literature by volumes on silviculture and 

 forest management, and Prof. Henry on soU physics. It 

 is claimed by Guyot, that a truly "French science" ( !) 



