346 India. 



In 1905, this department was transferred to Oxford 

 University and the course extended to three years, one 

 year to be spent in continental forests. 



Mr. Brandis early saw also the necessity of providing 

 the means of giving the natives of India some sort of 

 technical education in forestry. The first step in this 

 direction was to place natives, selected ones, under one 

 or two officers of the Imperial Service who were 

 deemed fit to instruct them, and in this way a few good 

 men were turned out. Another experiment after the 

 German pattern was made by apprenticing likely 

 young men under some forester for a year or two and 

 then sending them to an engineering school for theo- 

 retical instruction. This was also a failure. After 

 much hard work the Indian forest school at Dehra Dun 

 was established in 1878, the forests between the Jumna 

 and the Ganges rivers were set aside as training grounds, 

 formed into a special Forest Circle and placed under the 

 control of the director of the school. These forests 

 have been subjected to regular systems of management, 

 based on European experience, and excellent results 

 have been obtained. The first course of systematic 

 theoretical instruction was opened on the 1st of July, 

 1881. In 1884 the school was made an imperial insti- 

 tution by the Government of India, and the Inspector- 

 General of Forests was charged with its supervision, 

 under a Board of Control, consisting of the Inspector- 

 General, the Director, and three Conservators, with the 

 Assistant Inspector-General as secretary. This board 

 meets once a year at Dehra, conducts the examinations, 

 and looks into all of the workings of the School very 

 carefully. There are two courses one in which the 



