26 FORESTRY IN FRANCE. 



The following is the programme of studies for the two scholastic years : 



FOREST ECONOMY. 



First Year. — Classify ligneous products, cutting and sale of wood, cubature of cut wood, 

 qualities and defects of wood, elements of forest production, study of the diiferenl methods 

 of treatment; planning and laying out gardens ; methods of clearing ; simple cutting; cutting 

 of underwood and timber trees, artificial restocking, fixing the dunes, mountain forests and 

 regulating torrents. 



Practical Studies — Excursions to the forests of the Eastern Department of France and the 

 environs of Nancy. 



Second Year. — Decisions and fundamental principles relative to the parcelling out of 

 forests. 



Parcelling out timber trees and underwood. 



Parcelling out the conversion of forests ; estimation and sale of wood on foot. 



Estimation of forests in depth and surface. 



!^ractical Studies — Cutting trees for shipbuilding ; cutting and studies of parcelling out in 

 forests in full leaf and in resinous forests. 



POLITICAL ECONOMY AND FOREST STATISTICS. 



First Year. — Production, circulation, division, consumption of the wealth, economic 

 character of the wood and application of general political economy in the production of 

 wood ; forest statistics of France and foreign countries. 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



Botany. — Organs of nutrition and vegetable reproduction ; technical physiology of vege- 

 tables. 



Practical Studies — Harvest of plants and forming forest herbarium. 



GEOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY. 



Second Year.- — Mineralogy, lithology, geology; descriptive history of France vertebra, 

 forest entomology. Zoological classification. 



Practical Studies — Geological excursions in the eastern departments. 



First Year. — Organization and privileges of public authority. Property and its production. 

 Repression of injury to forest property. Legislation regarding hunting. 



Practical Exercises — Written composition relative to studies taught. 



Second Year. — Judicial reference between real estate (servitude, treatment, pretension), 

 and persons (usufruct and mortgage), between persons (sale, rent, concessions, work, enter- 

 prise) ; management of forests subordinate to the different forest lands. 



Practical Exercises — Written composition relative to studies taught. 



APPLIED MATHEMATICS. 



First Fra^.— Planimetry (instruments, snrveying, and raising plane surfaces). Altimetry 

 (instruments, levelling), construction of roads. 



Second F^izr.^Trigonometric and triangulation operations. Applied mechanics, roads, 

 forest building, sawmills, constructions for regulating torrents. 



Practical Studies— Triangulation of a forest; design for building a bridge; a joist build- 

 ing, sawmill, barrier in masonry. 



AGRICULTURE. 



Second Year. — Vegetable production, animal production, tillage, application of vegetable 

 physiology, and agricultural chemistry to "sylviculture." 



