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the high estimation entertained by the Punjab Govei-nnient of 

 his services. 



Meanwhile (in October 1862) the writer of the present paper 

 had been summoned from Burmah, where he had been in charge 

 of the forests since January 1856, to advise the Government of 

 India in the general organisation of Forest business. On his 

 recommendation, Dr Cleghorn was associated with him on the 1st 

 January 186-4, and remained in that capacity attached to the 

 Government of India until 1st March 1865. Previously, in 

 August 1863, these two officers had drawn up a joint memorandum, 

 which was sent to the Government of Madras, and which urged 

 the necessity of early demarcation of the Government and village 

 forests in the Madras Presidency. These proposals were not, 

 however, at that time approved by the Madras Government, and 

 it may here be added that, in spite of the persistent representa- 

 tions subsequently made on the same subject by the Government 

 of India, no adequate action was taken in Madras towai'ds effecting 

 a separation of the various rights and interests in the public 

 forests and waste lands until the Madi-as Forest Act was passed 

 in 1882. 



In April 1866, while the writer of the present paper was on 

 leave in Europe, Dr Cleghorn was appointed to officiate as In- 

 spector-General of Forests until April 1867, when the thanks of 

 the Government of India were conveyed to Dr Cleghorn for his 

 long and successful labours in the cause of Forest Conservancy in 

 India. On his return to Madras, he resumed his work in that 

 Presidency with his former zeal and industry. That, neverthe- 

 less, during that period much less progress was made in the forests 

 of Madras than in those of other provinces of the Empire, was 

 due to the views of the Government of Madras, which at that 

 time began to manifest themselves. Dr Cleghorn retired from 

 the service in 1870, but has since been employed every year at 

 the India Office as a confidential adviser to assist Her Majesty's 

 Secretary of State in the selection of candidates for the Indian 

 Forest Service. 



When Dr Cleghorn laid the foxindation of an effective system 

 of Forest Conservancy in Mysore and Madras, Forestiy was very 

 little known in India. A commencement had been made in several 

 places, but Dr Cleghorn was the first to carry out conservancy 

 measures on an extensive scale. His aims were large and com- 

 prehensive, but the single-minded devotion to the task which he 



