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this country of extended afforestation and improved manage- 

 ment of the existing woods. Ah-eady in January, 1886, he 

 submitted to the Earl of Carnarvon, then Viceroy of Ireland, 

 at his Lordship's invitation, a pamphlet entitled " Afforesta- 

 tion in Great Britain and Ireland." Before that pamphlet 

 had left the j^i'ess a change of Government took place, and 

 the pamphlet was, it is presumed, shelved.* However, he 

 went on and at various periods published, not only a Manual 

 of Forestry but further articles, and he read several papers on 

 the subject. Of the latter, attention may specially be drawn 

 to two : (1) " The Timber Supply of the British Empire," 

 read at the Imperial Institute in March, 1897; and (2) "The 

 Outlook of the World's Timber Supply," read before the 

 Society of Arts in March, 1901. During the last seven years 

 he had the pleasure of advising several landed proprietors 

 regarding the management of their woods, for whom he drew 

 up management schemes, or working plans as foresters call 

 them. In 1903 he prepared a working plan for the Alice Holt 

 woods belonging to the Crown. These labours brought him 

 more and more into contact with British forestry. 



On the 17th November, 1903, he gave a lecture on '•' Forestry" 

 at the Eoyal Agricultural College, Cirencester, as Honorary 

 Professor of Forestry at that Institution. On the 25th 

 February, 1904, he delivered another lecture at Carpenters' 

 Hall, in the City of London, on " The Forestry Problem in 

 the United Kingdom." In these two lectures the author gave 

 the outlines of his views on British forestry. Two more 

 lectures were given by him in January and February, 1905, 

 before the Eoyal Institution, on "Forestry in the British 

 Empire." In the second of these lectures he dealt especially 

 with forestry in the United Kingdom. 



In the present instance it is proposed to examine the ques- 

 tion, whether extended and improved forestry is of such 

 importance to this country generally, as to justify any special 



* The pamphlet was reprinted in the "Indian Forester"; see the mmiber 

 for April, ISSfi. 



