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difficulty in the way of the development of these capa- 

 bilities, arising from a reckless destruction of forests and 

 forest products which was going on, and a progressive 

 desiccation of the climate, accompanying or following the 

 destruction of forests and the burning of herbage and 

 bush in connection with agricultural operations and pas- 

 toral husbandry. And I knew not then, nor do I know 

 now, of a single work published in England from which I 

 could then procure information in regard to the treatment 

 required by aboriginal forests, to secure their conservation 

 and improvement, excepting ' The Forests and Gardens of 

 South India,' by Dr Cleghorn, then Conservator of Forests 

 in the Madras Presidency ; ' The Forester,' by Dr James 

 Brown ; ' The Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum,' by 

 Louden; and 'English Forests and Forest Trees,' an 

 anonymous work published by Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 

 London. But none of these supplied the information I 

 required. 



" Contrast with this the richness of Continental lan- 

 guages in literature on such subjects. I have had sent to 

 me lately ' Ofversigkt of Svenska Skogsliteraturen, Bibliografiska 

 Studieren of Axel Cnattingius' a list of many books and papers 

 on Forest Science published in Sweden ; I have also had 

 sent to me a work by Don Jose' Jordana y Morera, 

 Ingenero de Montes, under the title of ' Apuntes Biblio- 

 graphic Forestale,' a catalogue raisonne of 1126 printed books, 

 MSS., &c., in Spanish, on subjects connected with Forest 

 Science. 



" I am at present preparing for the press a report on 

 measures adopted in France, Germany, Hungary, and 

 elsewhere, to arrest and utilise drift-sand by planting 

 them with grasses and trees; and in Der JSuropaeische 



