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Not a little has been done by members of the forest 

 service of India to make their acquirements of knowledge 

 and of forestal skill subservent to the advancement of 

 forestry in other lands besides India. Amongst other 

 names which suggest themselves at once are those of Dr 

 Cleghorn, Colonel Walker Campbell, Colonel Michael, and 

 Colonel Pearson ; and good service is being done by the 

 Indian Forester, a valuable periodical. 



It is impossible to speak in too high terms of treatises 

 published by the late Baron Von Mueller, of Victoria. 

 Most valuable practical inform' ition is embodied in 

 Reports, Memoirs, and Manuals, issued by Mr J. E. 

 Brown, Conservator of Forests for the Government of 

 South Australia. And the forest reports annually published 

 in various of our Colonies, and the official reports issued 

 by the Government of the United States of America, are 

 producing a large and valuable body of forestal literature 

 in the English language. 



Besides these, many valuable treatises on subjects 

 connected with forestry, and pertaining to forest science, 

 have been published both in Britain and in America. Several 

 of these are known to me, and highly valued by me, but I 

 am not able to supply a complete list of the works which 

 have been published ; and it might seem invidious, and 

 prove misleading, were I to give a partial list, and it is such 

 alone which I could supply. 



We have an extensive and valuable literature relative 

 to Arboriculture. For this there is, and ever has been, a 

 demand ; but with works on Sylviculture, Modern Forest 

 Science, and Modern Forest Economy, it is otherwise. Nor 

 is there yet such a demand for works of this kind 

 as would make it pecuniarly remunerative to any to engage 

 largely in the publication of such works ; but as the 

 demand increases so will the supply. 



But a beginning has been made. In so far as I have 

 taken part in this I have done so in anticipation of a 

 future demand, not in consequence of any manifestation 

 of a felt want, And in reference to the rapid supply of 



