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countries being as before designed mainly for as- 

 pirants to the Indian forest service. The name of 

 Dr. William Schlich, a German forester, and for some 

 time the head of the Indian forest department now in 

 charge of this school, is most prominently connected 

 with the reform movement. 



Altogether forest management and silvicultural 

 practice are still nearly unknown in England, and, 

 until within a few years, the useful idea of working 

 plans had not yet penetrated the minds of owners of 

 estates. This apathy is, no doubt, in part due to the 

 fact that the government is in the hands of the nobility, 

 who prefer to keep their " shooting ranges' ', and do not 

 see even a financial advantage from turning them into 

 forest as long as they can derive a rent of from 10 

 to 40 cents per acre for shooting privileges. 



Private endeavor has been active through the two 

 arboricultural societies, the Royal Scotch, founded 

 in 1854, and the Royal English, beginning its labors 

 in 1880. The transactions of these societies in annual 

 or occasional volumes represent the current magazine 

 literature on forestry, since the monthly Journal of 

 Forestry and Estates Management, which began its 

 career in London in 1877, transferred to Edinburgh 

 in 1884, ceased to exist in 1885. A Quarterly Journal 

 of Forestry was begun by the English Society in 1907. 



Until within a short time the English professional 

 book literature has been extremely meager, although a 

 considerable propagandist, arboricultural, and general 

 magazine literature exists. Schlich's Manual of For- 

 e^ry, first in three volumes published from 1889 to 



