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aim at effective protection, an efficient system of 

 regeneration, and cheap transportation, the whole 

 under well-considered and methodical working- plans. 



The forest staff charged with carrying these plans 

 into effect draws its controlling officers from England. 



Until quite recently it had been the custom to send 

 the young men selected for the Indian forest service 

 to be educated on the continent of Europe, at first in 

 France and Germany, but more lately altogether at 

 the French school in Nancy. The arrangement was 

 not satisfactory, however, and in 1885 the school at 

 Cooper's Hill, near Windsor, was established as part 

 of the Royal Indian Engineering College. It is an 

 institution whose excellence is directly due to the 

 admirable management of Dr. Schlich, formerly 

 Inspector-General of Forests in India, and now its 

 principal professor of forestry. The course, which 

 in its general features resembles that of other forest 

 schools of similar excellence, has recently been 

 enlarged to cover three years, and includes as its 

 final work an excursion of three months in the forests 

 of the continent of Europe under the guidance of Sir 

 Dietrich Brandis. The writer was fortunate enough 

 to accompany the English students during the last 

 one of these excursions, and can testify to its admir- 

 able educational value. 



For the executive and protective work it is neces- 

 sary to employ natives, since they alone are equal to 

 the physical labor in so warm a climate. Their tech- 

 nical education is provided for by the Indian forest 

 school, at Dehra Dun, in connection with which is 

 the Dehra Dun State forest. Quite recently its first 

 working plan has been completed for this forest, and 

 while the management of no one forest can be taken 



