central square, Place Stanislas, on which 
front numerous handsome buildings. From 
this square radiate half a dozen streets, the 
approaches to which are guarded by wonder- 
ful iron gates, even more artistic than are 
those at Versailles. 
On a side street not far from the Place 
Stanislas is the forest school. One enters 
through a handsome gateway into a court- 
yard on which face three large buildings and 
a garden planted with trees from various 
parts of the world. Each building bears the 
name of one of the former directors of the 
school—Lorentz, Mathieu, Nanquette. And 
as everywhere in France, there is a memorial 
tablet commemorating the men connected 
with the school who fell in the war, many 
within but a few miles of these very build- 
ings. : 
There is little in the buildings themselves 
—lecture rooms, laboratories and offices— 
that particularly differentiates them from 
other college halls. But in its museums the 
school at Nancy has collections that are of 
more than usual interest. Especially, per- 
haps may be noted the models illustrating 
various sorts of. forestry work, lumbering, re- 
boisement, sand dune control and the like. 
Nancy has the unique distinction of having 
developed this phase of its museum earlier 
than did other schools. In the collection of 
woods, which is housed in a special museum 
building in the garden, the Galerie Daubree, 
is an exceptionally full series of specimens il- 
lustrating the uses to which the various Eu- 
ropean timber trees are put, both in the way 
of articles made from wood and in derived 
products. A group of the game animals of 
France occupies a prominent place in this 
museum, for in common with other European 
countries, the men of the French Forest Ser- 
vice are as a rule keenly interested in hunt- 
ing. ° 
The forest school at Nancy was established 
in 1825, the first director, Lorentz, having 
-been a student of Georg L. Hartig. Subse- 
quently the school.saw stormy days because 
of supposed German influence. In recent 
times the faculty has of course been com- 
posed entirely of French, foresters. The 
present director is M. le professeur Guinier; 
the sub-director, M. le professeur Bernard. 
Beside these gentlemen there are three other 
professors teaching strictly forestry subjects, 
with five or six others who conduct the work 
in related fields. The French Forest Experi- 
ment Station has its headquarters at the 
school. It is under the director of the school 
and consists of four sections. M. Perrin, who 
is in charge of the college forests near Nancy 
and chief of the section of silviculture, is also 
on the staff of the forest school. The college 
forests, Heye and Amance, totalling an area 
of about 6,000 acres, are within easy reach 
of the school. 
In organization the forest school at Nancy 
ranks as a part of the French Forest Service. 
But in purely educational matters the faculty 
of the school has the deciding voice. The 
course at Nancy covers two years, the stu- 
dents previously having had two years at the 
college of agriculture in Paris, where the 
work is mainly in the fundamental sciences. 
There are about 20 students in each class. 
The men wear uniforms and are under mili- 
tary discipline. One of the buildings in the 
group above referred to is used as a dormi- 
tory in which the students are housed, two 
men to a room. They take their meals at 
some restaurant in the city; the seniors fre- 
quenting one, the juniors another. There is 
a forestry club that is said to be a live or- 
ganization. 
Opportunity is afforded at Nancy for post 
graduate work and many young foresters have 
resorted thither from various countries. At 
one time a term at Nancy was a regular part 
of the training required of the students in the 
British Forest School, thén located at the en- 
gineering college at Cooper’s Hill, England. 
These men also joined the annual excursion to 
one or more of the noted forests of France. 
In these ways the French Forest School had 
no little influence on many of the men who 
later went out to take their places in forest 
work in British India. 
During the war the work of the school was 
interrupted, not to say disorganized. For a 
time Nancy was under bombardment. Nor- 
mal conditions have not as yet been entirely 
restored, although they are rapidly becoming 
so. At present, too, the school is at a disad- 
vantage because of reduced appropriations 
and the low value of French money in the 
world market. But reorganization is rap- 
idly progressing and in due course the school 
should once more be in smooth running order. 
No forester can visit Nancy and not be im- 
pressed with the spirit that characterizes the 
forest school. The standards that it has set 
are in very large measure responsible for the 
splendid esprit de corps that is so marked a 
feature of the French Forest Service. The 
record of the school is one of continued ac- 
complishment. There is no possible question 
but that Nancy deserves the place it holds as 
one of the great forest schools of the world. 
EDUCATION IN FORESTRY IN 
GREAT BRITAIN 
Education in forestry in Great Britain is 
at present in a period of transition. The 
great forestation program on which the Unit- 
ed Kingdom embarked in the autumn of 1919, 
when the British Forestry Commission was 
definitely established, has brought about con- 
ditions that call for adjustments in the ex- 
isting forest schools. Various plans are under 
discussion as to how the situation can most 
wisely be met. Co-operation through realign- 
ment is the objective. But it is a task that 
is not easy to accomplish. The Path is strewn 
with obstacles. All of which of course adds 
greatly to the interest which an outsider takes 
in a visit to the British forest schools today. 
(77) 
ze 
