408 India. 



Forest Experiment and Investigations have never 

 been systematically instituted, being left to individual 

 initiative, but lately (1909) provision has been made 

 in this direction in connection with the Dehra Dun 

 school by the establishment of an Imperial Research 

 Institute. 



Besides a monthly journal, the Indian Forester 

 which came into existence in 1875 through Schlich's 

 initiative, and the annual reports of the various con- 

 servators and of the Inspector-General, a small book 

 literature has developed within the last ten or fifteen 

 years. 



Descriptive volumes of note are J. S. Gamble's 

 Manual of Indian Timbers, new edition, 1902; Trees, 

 Shrubs and Woody Climbers of Bombay Presidency by 

 W. A. Talbot, 1902; Ribbentrop's Forestry in British 

 India, 1900, and the earlier publication of H. R. Mor- 

 gan, Forestry in Southern India; Brandis' Indian 

 Forestry and Distribution of Forests in India. Of pro- 

 fessional interest are E. E. Fernandez Manual of 

 Indian Silviculture, unfortunately out of print; the 

 same author's Forest Industries; D'Arcy's Manual of 

 Forest Working Plans; C. C. Roger's Manual of Forest 

 Engineering in India, and B. H. Baden- Powell, 

 Forest Law. 



The influence of the development of the Indian For- 

 est Service on the forest policy of other British col- 

 onies and of the home country has been considerable 

 and is growing, Indian forest officers being detailed 

 to assist in developing forest policies in these other 

 parts of the British Empire. 



