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proportion of the contributions from the southern forests in the Bombay Presidency 

 from Sind, Oudh, and Chittagong, and a portion of those from Madras and Assam 

 could not be utilized for the Exhibition, because they arrived too late. 



"The difficulty was, in the short time available, to bring together seasoned pieces 

 of the different species required. Fortunately, a number of pieces collected between 

 1866 and 1870, from the North- West and Central Provinces, the Punjab and British 

 Burma, which had been kept at Calcutta until they should be required, were available. 

 Some of these pieces had decayed or been eaten by insects, but the remainder yielded 

 a number of excellent and thoroughly seasoned specimens : and it is remarkable how 

 well many of the woods had kept in the damp climate of Calcutta. The specimens 

 yielded by these collections were numbered from 160 to 353. 



" From the Punjab a large, varied, carefully named, and selected collection was sent 

 by Mr. Baden-Powell, the Conservator, and the officers under his orders ; the main 

 series is numbered from 881 to 947, while those sent from the forests of Kulu, Kangra 

 and Chamba, by Lieutenant-Colonel Stenhouse and Mr. Pengelly, are numbered, re- 

 spectively, 116 to 132, 602 to 617, and 770 to 782. 1 



" Besides these collections and those made by the undersigned in Simla, and already 

 alluded to, the Rev. Mr. Heyde of the Moravian Mission, Lahoul, sent a number of 

 most interesting specimens from the arid districts of the inner Himalaya (numbered 

 133 to 144 inclusive) : and Mr. F. Halsey of Madhopur sent a small collection of fine, 

 well-seasoned pieces from the district of Gurdaspur (numbered 1190 to 1201). 



" The contributions of Ajmere were not large enough to give timber specimens of 

 the size required for the Exhibition ; they were numbered from 437 to 472. 



" Mr. Groig, the Conservator of Forests in the North Western Provinces, sent col- 

 lections made by Messrs. O'Callaghan and Bagshawe and Captain Campbell in the 

 forests of Dehra Dun, Jaunsar, and Kumaun ; they are numbered respectively 527 to 

 544, 420 to 432, and 873 to 875. Larger collections had been made, but, as the logs 

 were unseasoned, they were not sent down to Calcutta. From Oudh a few well- 

 seasoned pieces were early received (Nos. 387 to 394), but the remainder did not arrive 

 till after the Exhibition specimens had left Calcutta. 



" The collections sent from Bengal under the orders of the Conservator, Dr. W. 

 Schlich, arrived, with the exception of those from Chittagong, in very good time, and 

 furnished a large number of interesting specimens from parts of the country the forest 

 resources of which are not yet generally known. Mr. Richardson's contributions from 

 the Sundarbans (Nos. 395 to 419) illustrate well the forest growth of the delta of the 

 Ganges and Brahmaputra ; and those sent by Mr. Chester from Chittagong (Nos. 708 

 to 722, and 1951 to 1965) would have been of great interest had not the main series 

 arrived too late. But the chief collections received were sent by Messrs. Johnston and 

 Manson and the late Mr. Bonham Carter from the Darjeeling Hills and Terai, 

 numbering 170 pieces (Nos, 351 to 385, 433 to 436, 473 to 500, 573 to 601, 618 to 

 627, and 641 to 707), and including several very valuable and interesting kinds of 

 timber. Besides these, a small collection of 14 specimens (Nos. 964 to 976) was ob- 

 tained by Dr. Schlich from the valley of Chumbi, to the north of Sikkim ; which, though 

 to the south of the main Himalayan range, is actually in Thibet territory ; and which 

 had not hitherto been explored. 



" The collections from Assam sent by Mr. Gustav Mann, the Deputy Conservator, 

 and by the Deputy Commissioners of Cachar and Sylhet, included many fine and well- 

 seasoned pieces. These were numbered from 628 to 641, 783 to 799, 1228 to 1234, 

 1254 to 1277, 1285 to 1300 the last numbers arriving too late for the Exhibition. 



1 Besides the numbers here given as indicating the specimens received from the Pun- 

 jab and other provinces, there are a few scattered numbers which it has not been thouerht 

 necessary to quote. 



