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trade in new timbers, examining samples and arranging trade 

 trials. For the Colonial Office the newly formed Colonial Forest 

 Resources Development Department has taken over most of this 

 work, but its members co-operate with the Imperial Institute 

 Committee. 



In Africa itself there are special forestry organizations in the 

 Union of South Africa, Southern Rhodesia (a division of the 

 department of agriculture and lands), the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 

 (a section of the department of agriculture and forests), and 

 separate forestry departments in the British colonies, protectorates 

 and mandates, except in Northern Rhodesia where there is a 

 forestry branch of the agricultural department, and the Gambia. 

 The staff of each department is shown in the following list: 



The Union of South Africa has the oldest and largest forestry 

 organization. The Division of Forestry, under the general direction 

 of the Secretary for Agriculture and Forestry, consists of four sec- 

 tions: administrative, forest management, silvicultural research, 

 and the Forest Products Research Institute. The latter, situated 

 at Pretoria West, renders the Union independent in experimental 

 work on the utilization of timbers. The organization is outlined 

 in full in the statement made to the British Empire Forestry Con- 

 ference in 1935 (Union of South Africa 1935). In South Africa a 

 course of higher training in forestry has recently been opened at 



^ Compiled from Empire Forestry Handbook (1938). 



