TRAINING OF PROBATIONERS FOR FOREST SERVICE OF INDIA. I93 



Cambridge, as might easily be arranged through the Boards 

 of Indian Studies without further cost to the Government of 

 India than is at present incurred in the " Delegation of Forestry 

 Students" to Oxford, one Professor of Indian Forestry (and 

 Adviser to India Office) being henceforth delegated to Oxford 

 with a salary of ^700 a year, and another to Cambridge with 

 a salary of ;^5oo a year. The specialised course should then 

 embrace the following curriculum (the probationers being 

 previously assigned to provinces, as is the case with Civil 

 Service probationers), after which the selection and the seniority 

 of candidates should be determined by an examination in the 

 subjects of study, to be held annually in June, on the completion 

 of the academic year at Oxford and Cambridge : — 



Indian Forestry (the lectures being freely illustrated with 

 limelight illustrations) — 



1. History of Indian Forest Department; Silviculture, 



Management, Protection, and Utilisation, as practised 

 in the various provinces of India, 



2. Indian Forest Code of Procedure, Office Work, ..and 



Accounts, ...... 



3. Indian Forest Law (India, Madras, and Burma Forest Acts), 



and the Rules and Regulations issued thereunder, 



Marks, 



400 



400 

 400 



II. Vernacular Languages — 



1. Hindustani (colloquial and elementary, in Persian char- 



acter only), ...... 



2. Chief Vernacular Language of the Province to which the^ 



Probationer is assigned (including the Nagari character, 

 and also a more advanced study where Hindustani alone 

 is prescribed), 



400 



400 



III. Cog7iate Sciences, not more than one of the following sub- 

 jects: — 

 I. Botany, .... 

 (i) Plant Physiology, or 

 (2) Fungoid Diseases of Forest Trees, 



2. Zoology; Forest Entomology, 



3. Chemistry of Soil and Plant, 



4. Physical Geography and Meteorology, 



400 



Selected candidates who pass this examination and are 

 otherwise favourably reported on should be appointed to the 

 Indian Forest Service, and should receive (like the Civil 

 Service probationers) a grant of ;^i5o for the year of pro- 

 bation, with passage-money of ^^37, los. to Bombay, Madras, 



