its use is found Der Schweizerischer Hidge- 
nossen Forstschule. The Swiss Forest 
School dates from 1827. The present build- 
ing, completed in 1917, replaced an earlier 
one, also of good size, that was built about 
forty years ago. The forest school ranks as 
a department of the college of agriculture. 
The course in forestry at Ztirich covers a 
period of three and a half years. The for- 
estry staff consists of three professors, in- 
struction in allied branches is handled, as in 
other similarly organized colleges, by the re- 
lated departments. As in Denmark, the head 
of the Swiss Forest Experiment Station, Prof. 
Dr. A. Engler, is one of the professors. These 
two institutions are thus bound together 
through personal relations as well as physi- 
cally. The experiment station occupies a 
floor of one of the other buildings of the 
university. 
The building of the Swiss Forest School 
has an imposing facade. It is built about a 
court, glassed in above. The floor space in 
try are those of Coaz and Landolt. Dr. 
Johannes Coaz died in 1915, at the age of 
96, still in harness. His work as an able ad- 
ministrator will long be remembered. Prof. 
Elias Landolt was for many years head of the 
forest school at Ziirich. In the small garden 
in front of the forest school building stands 
a bust of him. The practice of erecting stat- 
ues to individuals is not so common in Switz- 
erland as elsewhere in Europe. The Swiss 
indeed rather pride themselves on being so 
democratic as not to desire thus to honor even 
their prominent men. This recognition of 
Prof. Landolt is therefore of more than ordi- 
nary significance. 
THE FOREST SCHOOL 
OF FRANCE 
The French forest school—Ecole Nationale 
des Eaux et Forets—situated at Nancy, in the 
northeast of France, is of particular interest 
to Americans, not only from its long and hon- 
orable record, but also because there have 
THE SWISS NA- 
TIONAL FOREST 
SCHOOL, AT 
ZURICH, ONE 
OF THE SWISS 
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the center is used for an exhibit of wild and 
domesticated animals; skeletons and mount- 
ed specimens. Lecture rooms and _ offices 
open on the balconies that surround the court. 
The walls are lined with wood specimens and 
other illustrative material, as well as maps 
and photographs of forests. 
The faculty of the forest school at Ztirich 
is in close touch with the development of 
professional affairs in Switzerland. One of 
the staff, Prof. Heinrich Badoux, is editor of 
the French edition of the ‘‘Swiss Forestry 
Journal,’ for owing to diversities of language 
in the several cantons, French, German and 
Italian all have official recognition. The edi- 
tor of the German edition is Oberforster 
Hans von Greyerz. In Switzerland, as is but 
natural, the German text-books on forestry 
are those most used, but there have been not- 
able contributions to forestry literature from 
Swiss foresters. 
Two names that stand out in Swiss fores- 
studied here a number 
American foresters. In the published list of 
graduates the name of Gifford Pinchot 
stands alone as representing this country— 
class of 1889—but many other Americans 
have for longer or shorter times been in at- 
tendance at Nancy. 
Nancy is a most attractive city. In the 
middle of the eighteenth century it was the 
home of Stanislas, king of Poland and duke 
of Lorraine, whose daughter was the queen 
of Louis XV. In the period between 1750 
and 1765 King Stanislas enriched the city 
with many public buildings, triumphal 
arches and other architectural adornments 
all done in the best style of that resplendant 
period, and apparently without regard to ex- 
pense. The result is that today Nancy is one 
of the most delightful of the smaller cities of 
France, outside of those where the interest 
is primarily due to historical association. Es- 
pecially to be remarked about Nancy is the 
of the best known 
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