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subsequently endorsed by the Imperial Economic Conference 

 held in London the same year. Arrangements were accordingly 

 completed for starting the Institute in October 1924. 



The Imperial Forestry Institute will be a University Insti- 

 tution, the Professor of Forestry being its Director. It will 

 be under the control of a Board of Governors representing the 

 University and Government Departments .concerned, under the 

 chairmanship of Lord Clinton, a Forestry Commissioner. The 

 educational work of the Institute will comprise (i) post-graduate 

 training of probationers for the forest services, and of other 

 qualified persons; (2) training of research officers in special 

 subjects ; and (3) provision of courses for selected officers 

 already serving. It is intended that the Institute should 

 maintain close touch with and be of assistance to the various 

 forestry training centres throughout the Empire. Thus, in the 

 case of overseas training centres which have no direct means 

 of giving practical instruction in the latest systems of manage- 

 ment as practised on the continent of Europe, it will be one of 

 the functions of the Institute to arrange for such practical 

 instruction to be given by members of its own staff" to students 

 who have already completed their general course of training at 

 their own universities or colleges. 



If in any particular case it cannot undertake to give direct 

 instruction, the Institute may arrange that this should be given 

 at some other place. It is proposed, for instance, that close 

 touch should be maintained with the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Kew, whose unrivalled resources should be of great assistance 

 to those students who may wish to study systematic botany 

 and economic products. Again, forest engineering is a subject 

 which cannot be dealt with comprehensively in Great Britain, 

 owing to the absence of logging operations on a large scale ; 

 arrangements will therefore be made as far as possible to study 

 it practically in the forest regions of the Continent, or in certain 

 cases in Canada. Similarly, the study of tropical silviculture 

 from the practical point of view is impossible outside the 

 tropics, and hence the Institute will maintain close touch with 

 other institutions where this subject can be efficiently dealt 

 with, such as the Forest Research Institute and College, Dehra 

 Dun, in order that the best possible arrangements may be 

 made in the interests of students who wish to make a practical 

 study of tropical silviculture. 



