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the forest academy. Although the work in all branches centers at 

 Eberswalde, numerous sample plots and experimental areas have been 

 established in various parts of Prussia and have been selected with 

 special reference to the research in hand. 



It was my fortune to visit nearly all the important forest research 

 ■stations in Europe shortly before the outbreak of war and, so far as I 

 was able to judge, the branches of research at each were much the same, 

 although at different stations there were vast differences in the em- 

 phasis placed on one branch as compared with that at another. Thus 

 at Eberswalde the work in the branch of silviculture was especially 

 prominent, while at Tharandt chemical investigations were prominent 

 and had received international recognition. At the research institute 

 in Bavaria meteorological investigations had long been prominent, par- 

 ticularly in reference to forest influences. Although at Mariabrunn, in 

 Austria, silvicultural investigations under Cieslar had long been promi- 

 nent, special attention has been given to the investigation of the physical 

 and mechanical properties of wood. 



Although in Germany forest research was stimulated and unified 

 through a strong forest research association, in some other countries 

 it was not. Thus in Great Britain forest research has for the most part 

 been conducted independently by professors at Oxford, Cambridge, and 

 Edinburgh. So far as the writer can learn, it has not been organized, 

 but is left to the initiative of the professors of forestry in educational 

 institutions. In India, however, an active forest research institute is 

 in operation, with separate branches, but closely linked with the school 

 of forestry at Dehra Dun. 



The following research branches are represented in the institute at 

 Dehra Dun : 



1. Silviculture. 



2. Forest botany. 



3. Forest economy. 



4. Forest zoology. 



5. Forest chemistry. 



As the development of forestry in India is more recent than that in 

 Europe, we should expect research to take on a somewhat different 

 aspect due to different economic and social conditions, and so it does. 

 For the same reason we should expect this country to take on a differ- 

 ent aspect. In India and in the United States, when the interests of 

 forestry center in the utilization of vast stands of virgin timber, forest 



