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officer. In addition to these permanent officers, specialists are attached 

 to the Institute, temporarily, when necessary to carry out investigations 

 in subjects of special current interest. 



In India there appears to be a unanimity of opinion as to the neces- 

 sity for a central institution to deal with the more strictly scientific 

 portions of research and for the general guidance and co-ordination of 

 investigation. Moreover, this central institution embodies research in 

 each of the five divisions mentioned above. The Indian system is m 

 the judgment of the reviewer, radically different from the system that 

 has developed in this country, in that here there is no central station 

 where research is actually carried on but centers in a number of 

 stations widely separated. The office of research in Washington has 

 no counterpart in the Indian system. 



In the expansion of research in India now under way the present 

 number of main divisions of research wall not be increased, but each 

 will be subdivided into a number of divisions, manned by experts under 

 the general control of the head of each branch. Although the heads 

 of each division and important branches will be Imperial forest officers 

 the assistants will be recruited from the Imperial service and from 

 native foresters trained at Dehra Dun. 



It is proposed to strengthen the Silvicultural branch by adding two 

 assistants from the Imperial service, making five in all. 



The purpose is to divide the Botanical branch into three sections 

 dealing with Systematic Botany, Ecology, and Mycology, each under 

 an officer of Imperial status ; also to increase the native assistants in 

 this branch. The Zoological branch will be extended to deal with the 

 main problems of forest zoology in various parts of India. Where 

 heretofore there has been one forest zoologist, and two native assistants 

 it is proposed to employ a systematic zoologist and four regional 

 zoologists to conduct researches in different parts of India. 



At present the economic branch is in charge of a forest economist 

 aided by an assistant, both Imperial officers. To this branch will be 

 added a wood technologist and an expert in minor forest products, both 

 to be recruited from the Imperial staff. Various exports will continue 

 to be temporarily employed in this branch to conduct investigations in 

 such subjects as pulp resources and tannin. The chemical branch will 

 be divided into sections according to the main lines under which in- 

 vestigators are to proceed. A forest chemist will be in general charge 

 of the branch and biological and distillation chemists wall be added. 



