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teaching is given in English for rangers, the other in 

 which the instruction is given in the vernacular for 

 foresters. Courses extend over 23^ months. The 

 training is not high but it seems to answer the purpose 

 very well. The Dehra Dun forest school provides the 

 rangers for the pro^^nces. The Bombay Presidency 

 had for some time their own forest school in connection 

 with the Engineering College at Poona, but this is now 

 abandoned. 



Forest Experiments and Investigations have never 

 been systematically instituted, being left to individual 

 initiative, but lately pro\ision has been made in con- 

 nection with the Dehra Dun school. 



Besides a monthly journal, the Indian Forester 

 which came into existence in 1875 by Schlich's initia- 

 tive, and the annual reports of the various conservators 

 and of the Inspector-General, a small book literature 

 has developed within the last ten or fifteen years. 



Descriptive volumes of note are J. S. Gamble's 

 Manual of Indian Timbers, new edition, 1902; Trees, 

 Shrubs and Woody Climbers of Bombay Presidency by 

 W. A. Talbot, 1902; Ribbentrop's Forestry in British 

 India, 1900, and the earlier publication of H. R. Mor- 

 gan, Forestry in Sovihern India; Brandis' Indian For- 

 estry and Distribution of Forests in India. Of profes- 

 sional interest are E. E. Fernandez Manual of Indian 

 Silviculture, unfortunately out of print; the same 

 author's Forest Industries; D'Arcy's Manual on For- 

 est Working Plans; C. C. Roger's Manual of Forest En- 

 gineering in India, and B. H. Baden-Powell, Forest Law. 



The influence of the development of the Indian For- 

 est Service on the forest policy of other British colonies 



