Abstract
INAUGURATION of the new Institute of the Service de la Carte de la Vegetation at the Faculte' des Sciences of the University of Toulouse, France, took place on May 16-21, 1960 at Toulouse. To celebrate the occasion the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.), of which the Service is an organ, sponsored an international colloquium on methods of vegetation cartography. An invitation to participate in this affair provided an opportunity to examine the status and methods of analysis, classification, and cartography of vegetation in Europe. The observations made were startling enough, perhaps, to be of interest even to the general American scientific public. The most conspicuous facts noted were the tremendous importance attached in Europe to the study of vegetation and to mapping it in various ways, and the advanced state of such studies there compared with this sort of work in America. One is led at least to ask the question whether this randomly selected example is in any way indicative of the relative status of basic research in general in the two continents.
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