320 India. 



1895, now in its third edition, enlarged to five volumes, 

 is the most comprehensive publication. Another 

 author deserving mention is John Nisbet, known by 

 his Studies in Forestry (1894), who also engrafted 

 continental silvicultural notions into later editions of 

 James Brown's The Forester, an encyclopaedic work 

 of merit. 



John Croumbie Brown's sixteen volumes on forests 

 and forestry in various countries may be mentioned 

 among the propagandist literature. The Arboricul- 

 tural Societies mentioned also make a brave effort to 

 advance professional development of forestry in their 

 publications. 



INDIA. 



While so neglectful of its forest interests at home, 

 Great Britain has developed in her possessions in the 

 East Indies a far-seeing policy, and, under the lead of 

 German influence, has established there one of the 

 largest, if not most efficient, forest departments in 

 the world. 



Contrary to a frequently expressed idea that the 

 conditions and problems of India are comparable to 

 the conditions and problems of the United States, so 

 that the example of Great Britain in India rather than 

 that of any European country might serve us in the 

 United States, the writer thinks that the very opposite 

 is true. Not only are the natural conditions for the 

 most part different, India being mainly tropical with 

 an entirely different flora and different conditions of 

 growth, but industrial, cultural, social and political 

 conditions are also entirely different; all of which 



