DR CLEGHORN's services TO INDIAN FORESTRY. 93 



had set himself gained the confidence of many who might other- 

 wise have been hostile to the new measures advocated by him. 

 A public resolution by the Government of India, of 10 th January 

 1865,^ justly designated him as the founder of Forest Conservancy 

 in India, and added — " His long sei-vices from the first organisa- 

 tion of forest management in Madras have without question 

 greatly conduced to the public good in this branch of the admini- 

 stration ; and in the Punjab also Dr Cleghorn's labours have 

 prepared the way for the establishment of an efiicient system of 

 conservancy and working the forests of that province," 



Since Dr Cleghorn's retirement from the Indian Service, he 

 has done much for the promotion of Forestry in Great Britain, 

 particularly through the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, of 

 which he became a member in 1865, and of which he has been 

 President on two occasions — from 1872 to 1874, and from 1883 

 to 1886. It was in a great measure due to his exertions that the 

 International Forestry Exhibition of 1884 was held with such 

 marked success at Edinburgh. 



^ Parliamentary Return on Forest Conservancy, Part I. India, 1871, p. 95. 



