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officers, and a number of others have been educated at 

 Delira Dun for service in the Native States. 



But more than this, Indian forest officers have been asked 

 for by, and lent to, man}' colonies. Amongst these may 

 be mentioned Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, Mauritius, 

 Victoria, New Zealand, South Africa, East Africa, Nigeria, 

 the Soudan, Cyprus, the West Indies and British Honduras. 

 The forests of Siam have been managed by Indian forest 

 officers for quite a number of years. Even the mother 

 country itself has indented on India. The Forest of Dean, 

 the High Meadow Woods and Alice Holt Woods are now 

 managed according to working plans prepared by Indian forest 

 officers, as well as the forests of his Grace the Duke of Bed- 

 ford, Lord Selborne, Mr. Munro-Ferguson and others. The 

 Professors of forestry at Oxford and Edinburgh Universities 

 are retired Indian forest officers, and so is the Instructor at the 

 School for Working Foresters lately established at the Dean. 

 The assistant for forestry of the Deputy Surveyor of the 

 Dean is a retired Indian forest officer. It is to be hoped that the 

 landed proprietors in this country will soon perceive that they 

 will be acting in their own interest, if they employ, more 

 extensively than in the past, retired Indian forest officers in 

 the management of their woodlands. 



It is not too much to say that the development of economic 

 forestry in the British Empire generally has come through 

 India. It is that country which has set the example. There 

 can be no doubt that the development of systematic economic 

 forest management in British India is something to be proud 

 of. An illustrious Indian administrator had no hesitation in 

 stating publicly that it ranks amongst the great achievements 

 realised during the long and glorious reign of Her Most 

 Gracious Majesty the late Queen Victoria and Empress of 

 India. 



CEYLON. 



The island lies between the parallels of north latitude 5°53' 

 and 1J°51' immediately to the soutli of India, from which 



