Abstract
WITHIN the last ten years the course of instruction at Nancy has been considerably modified. The school is attended by some foreign students, who, as well as a few occasional private French students, are admitted without any regular examination. Formerly, students intended for service in the State and Communal forests of France passed a preliminary competitive examination in the subjects usually taught at a Lycée, including physics and chemistry. A knowledge of botany, entomology and geology, however, was not required of them, these subjects being taught ab initio at Nancy; in those days the marks obtained for forestry unduly overshadowed those given for natural history, and only a few devoted naturalists were to be found among French forest officers. Forestry teaching at Nancy also was much too dogmatic, and not sufficiently based on experimental results.
Les Forêts.
Par L. Boppe, Directeur honoraire de l'Ecole Nationale des Eaux et Forêts de Nancy, et Ant. Jolyet, chargé de cours à l'Ecole. Pp. xi. + 488. (Paris: J. B. Baillère et Fils, 1901).
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FISHER, W. Les Forêts . Nature 63, 1–2 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/063001a0
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