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of State for India in Council, on Forest Conservancy in 

 India, showing the measures which have been adopted, 

 and the measures which are going on, in the several 

 presidencies and lieutenant-governorships, beginning with 

 the dispatch from the Governor-General in Council, of 

 21st day of May, 1862, to the present time." And the 

 Return comprises two printed volumes, consisting of 1G71 

 folio pages on India, one of 441 pages on Madras, and one 

 of 357 pages on Bombay in all, 2469 pages folio. And 

 they report an approved estimate of expenditure, for the 

 year 1871-1872, on forests in the Indian Empire of 

 45,11,000 rupees, and an estimated income of 57,34,000 

 rupees; or, according to another account, an annual 

 expenditure of upwards of 450,000, with annual returns 

 of upwards of 570,000. 



'In 1871 a commission was appointed by the Govern- 

 ment of Victoria to report amongst other things on the 

 best means of promoting the culture, extension, and 

 preservation of State Forests in Victoria, and the intro- 

 duction of such foreign trees as may be suitable to the 

 climate, and useful for industrious purposes, which 

 Committee has gone to considerable expense and trouble 

 in collecting and printing information from New Zealand, 

 India, the United States, Hanover, Prussia, Saxony, 

 Bavaria, Austria, Baden, Italy, and Sweden, as well as 

 Great Britain, availing themselves largely of the published 

 report by Captain Campboll Walker on State Forests and 

 forest management in Germany and Austria, which I 

 have cited in speaking of the Forest Schools of Germany. 



'In the Report of the Commission of Agriculture, laid 

 before the Senate and the House of Representatives of 

 the United States, in 1865, there was embodied a Memoir 

 on " American Forests their Destruction and Preserva- 

 tion," by the Rev. Frederick Starr, of St. Louis, Missouri, 

 of which Report 105,000 copies were ordered by the 

 House of Representatives to be printed, and within a 

 week 20,000 " extra copies " were ordered by the Senate,' 



