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eighteen mouths later he was summoned to Simla, presumably on 

 the advice of Dr. H. V. Cleghorn, to advise upon forest matters 

 in the Xorthern Provinces. In 1864 he was appointed the first 

 Inspector-General of Porests, and thereupon set on foot svste- 

 matic and uniform forest discipline throughout British India. 

 The department has now an ai*ea of nearly 240,000 square miles, 

 that is, twice the area of the United Kingdom, 



His subordinates were at first drawn from those trained on the 

 continent, later his assistants came from British schools, and 

 finally he procured the establishment, in 1878, of a School of 

 Forestry at Dehra Dun, chiefly for native officers. The result 

 of this long-continued effort has been to place the forest resources 

 of the Empire on a solid basis, for the supply of timber, firewood, 

 grass, and other products, together with a revenue which has 

 increased from ,£40,000, in 1864, to more than sixteen times that 

 amount. 



Official reports were issued annually, but Dr. Brandis did not 

 confine his energies to purely official records. Dr. J. L. Stewart 

 had been commissioned, in 1869, to bring out a Forest Flora of 

 Xorth- Western India, and a few sheets were put in type in 1871, 

 when his health had become impaired, and on returning to India 

 he died shortly afterwards. In 1872, the materials collected by 

 Dr. Stewart were made over to Dr. Brandis, who elaborated them 

 at Kew into the well-known ' Forest Flora of Xorth-West and 

 Central India,' London, 1874, octavo, with a quarto atlas of plates 

 by W. H. Fitch. The next year he was elected into the lioyal 

 Society. 



For the next quarter of a century, his published papers were on 

 practical forestry matters. Eetiring from service in 1883, at the 

 age of 59, he settled in his native Bonn, until, in or about the year 

 1899, he began his last work which occupied him till the close of 

 his life, under the title of ' Indian Trees,' with numerous figures, 

 published in 1906, an invaluable repository of information, not only 

 for foresters, but for botanists also. 



Becoming a widower after nine years of married life, in 1867 

 he married Katherine, daughter of Dr. Eudolph Hasse, of Bonn, 

 who, with three sons and one daughter, survive him. He was 

 appointed CLE. in 1876, and promoted to K.C.LE. in 1887. 

 Concurrently with the preparation of his ' Indian Trees ' he 

 became absorbed in the structure of the leaves of bamboos, and 

 his paper upon that subject, read 1st November, 1906, and 

 published in March 1907, was his last contribution to science. 

 He left for Bonn immediately after the presentation of that 

 paper, but being taken ill soon after his return to his birthplace, he 

 was compelled to undergo a severe operation, and after lingering 

 for some weeks, he died on 28th May, 1907. 



Before quitting England for the last time. Sir Dietrich Brandis 

 had an album presented to him with nearly 200 signatures to an 

 address of congratulation, in the hope that he might long enjoy 

 his well earned rest — a wish that was not realised. 



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