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great use amongst the populations where those industries would 
be established?” “In this country, I should think there must be 
many already, but of course my experience in that subject is 
limited to India, where the products are so much more numer- 
ous.”—“ They are utilised in India now to a larger extent, are 
they not?” “They are all utilised, and now form a very large 
source of revenue ; but there must be also a large number of forest 
products in Europe—resins, gums, and so on.’ 
“ Are you aware that the forest products imported into this 
country amount to 31} millions sterling per annum?’ “T can 
quite believe that, judging from the value of forest products which 
are to be got out of the forests in India, as evidenced by the col- 
lection sent to the Edinburgh Forestry Exhibition—drugs, gums, 
resins, oils, and fibres. There is an enormous industry, which I 
think will come forward, in these raw materials, especially in 
papermaking substances.”—“ You have no returns which would 
show the value of the timber imported into this country, which 
is about from 16 millions to 20 millions sterling, the rest 
being represented by the importation of resins, gums, and so 
on?” “The report which I have perused of Mr P. L. Simmonds’ 
Paper, read in February last, treats only of the teak supply, but it 
shows that in 1883 there were £647,000 worth of teak imported 
into England.” 
‘** Have you any suggestions you would wish to make as to the 
present training of Indian forest officials, or are you satisfied with 
it?” ‘Tamvery glad to find that they are going to train them in 
their own country instead of entirely abroad, for my experience is 
that some of the younger men who were trained abroad were 
under great disadvantages from not knowing the language suffi- 
ciently. It is very much better that a man should be trained in 
his own language than in a foreign one, which he understands only 
partially. It takes him a long time to learn the language, and to 
understand what he is learning in fact. 
«Have you paid any attention to the state of the woodlands in 
Great Britain and Ireland?” ‘Merely as an amateur, going 
through the New Forest or Windsor Forest; in fact, I live at 
Ascot, close to Windsor and Swinley, and it interests me very 
much to see what goes on in those forests ; but I cannot say that 
I have any personal knowledge of English woodlands.”—“ From 
what you have seen, would you consider that the management of 
our woodlands in this country is altogether satisfactory, or would 
