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recommendation of Réaumur in his three memoirs, 
Semis et Plantations, Exploitation des Bois and Traité 
de la Physique des Arbres, in which he exhibits consid- 
erable learning, while Bujfon, 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 encyclopedic 
volume in Traité de ’ Aménagement des Foréts, which 
was followed in 1805 by a very incorrect translation of 
Hartig’s Lehrbuch, both by Baudrillart, professor of po- 
litical economy, who also published in 12 volumes his 
Traité Général des Eaux et Foréts. Dralet, a forester, 
1807, also brought out a treatise on forest management, 
which includes all branches of the subject. 
‘ In 1836 appeared Parade’s, Cours Hlémentaire de Cul- 
ture des Bots, 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 Tassy 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, Reuss, Boppe, 
all directors or professors at the forest school, enriched 
the French literature by volumes on silviculture and 
forest management, and Prof. Henry on soil physics. It 
is claimed by Guyot, that a truly “French science” (!) 
