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place en corps de doctere. Having there taken ces aplombs, 

 Germany became so much the sooner the beacon-fire and' 

 guide of the administration of the management of forests, 

 that there the same men were engaged in the prosecution 

 of scientific research and in the management of practical 

 operations — a combination which unhappily existed not in 

 France in the last generation.' 



All honour is due, and all honour was given, even by 

 those who might have been supposed jealous of their 

 success, to Hartig and Cotta. Before they entered upon 

 labours much had been done by students of vegetation 

 in France. Reaumur, Duhamel, Buffon, Du Petit Thouars, 

 Merbel, Richard, and Decandolle, are names never to be 

 forgotten. As has been intimated, the labours on which 

 they and others like them might have engaged success- 

 fully, were prevented by the commotions and wars conse- 

 quent on the Revolution in France. But work they had 

 accomplished was not all lost, and the German fathers of 

 the advanced forest economy of the day gave to the study 

 a new direction. 



Captain Campbell- Walker, a distinguished official, occu- 

 pying a high position in the Forest Service of India, who 

 was selected to visit the forests of Germany and report, 

 and who was subsequently selected to visit more than one 

 British Colony to examine their forests and report what 

 might be done to secure the conservation and economic 

 exploitation of them, writes in his report on the exploitation 

 of forests in the method now under consideration : — 



'Forestry in Germany is truly a science, and differs 

 very widely from anything I have seen called by the 

 same naime either in India or England. I do not advance 

 the theory that the German system is perfect or applicable 

 to all States or circumstances, and still less that we in 

 England do not grow as fine trees, or do not know how to 

 plant and rear young trees for timber. If any have 



