4 PREFACE 



thanks are due : to Mr, j. P. Popert, Consulting 

 Forester to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, 

 and to Mr. A. G. Hobart-Hampden, Agent to the 

 Earl of Buckinghamshire, both retired Conservators 

 of the Indian Forest Department, for reading through 

 the manuscript and for much valuable advice and help 

 in its preparation, and to Professor J. Bretland Farmer 

 for revising the botanical part of the book. 



C. O. HANSON. 



LATIMER LODGE, CINDERFORD. 



