212 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY 



26. Probationers for the Indian Forest Service. 



The following letter has been sent by the India Office to the 

 Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, and is published by 

 permission of the India Office : — 



India Office to the Vice- Chancellor, Cambridge University, and 

 the Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Edinburgh University. 



India Office, 

 2nd February 19 II. 



Sir, 



I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in 

 Council to inform you that, as the result of careful consideration 

 of the existing regulations as to the training of probationers for 

 the Indian Forest Service, he has decided to modify them in 

 accordance with the following decisions at which he has arrived : — 



Any University which possesses a Forest School approved by 

 the Secretary of State shall be permitted to train Forest 

 probationers. This shall have effect as regards probationers 

 selected in and after 191 2. 



The Secretary of State is prepared to approve for this purpose 

 the Forest Schools existing at the Universities of Oxford, 

 Cambridge and Edinburgh. 



A course of training in practical forestry in Germany or 

 elsewhere, a certain standard of knowledge in an Indian 

 vernacular, and any other special qualifications that the Secretary 

 of State may prescribe, shall be imposed upon all probationers. 



The studies of the probationers shall be controlled on behalf 

 of the Secretary of State by the Director of Indian Forest Studies 

 (hereafter styled the Director). 



The Director shall be a selected officer of the Indian Forest 

 Service, shall be paid such salary as the Secretary of State may 

 determine, and shall hold office for a term of five years. 



The duties of the Director shall be — 



(i) To arrange for and direct the training in practical forestry 

 of the probationers, and to exercise supervision over them while 

 so engaged ; 



(2) To consult with all Universities where there may be 

 Forest probationers as to the special studies to be undertaken 

 by them, and as to the examinations or tests of proficiency to be 

 required of them ; 



