164 THE INDIAN FOREST SCHOOL. 
The area of reserved forests has therefore enormously increased 
during the last few years; and as it will continue to do so 
for some time to come, it seems likely that the number of 
appointments which will ultimately become available for passed 
students of the school will be much in excess of that mentioned in 
the original proposals. During 1884 there were forty-six students 
of all classes at the school, of whom eight were from the Madras 
Presidency and seven were sent by the native chiefs of the States 
of Baroda in Bombay, Jaipur in Rajputana, and Patidla in the 
Punjab. One highly satisfactory result of the establishment 
of the school is that it has been the means of inducing the 
chiefs of several of the most important native States to under- 
take measures for the protection of their forests. A few of 
those junior oflicers of the superior staff who have not been 
trained in Europe ave sent up each year to attend the theoretical 
course, and it is hoped that the whole of them will ultimately 
be passed through the school in this manner. 
At first the school at Dehra Din was a provincial institution, 
under the Government of the North-Western Provinces and 
Oudh; but this was found inconvenient, and it has now been 
placed directly under the Government of India. This is a very 
great improvement on the previous arrangement. The expenses 
of the school during 1884 are said to have been 22,934 rupees, 
or about £1720. 
