PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION 



Dr. W. Schlich, C.I.E., has allowed the present book to form 

 Volume IV. of his Manual of Forestry. For this favour I have 

 therefore to thank him, as well as for the kind advice and 

 assistance he has always readily afforded me during the progress 

 of the work. This treatise on Forest Protection, the full scope 

 of which is explained in the Introduction, is an adaptation for 

 English readers of* the well-known German Forstschutz, by 

 Dr. Eichard Hess, Professor of Forestry at the University of 

 Giessen, in Hesse Darmstadt, to whom I am most grateful for 

 permission to utilize his book and its illustrative plates. I 

 have found it at times necessary to deviate from the original, 

 especially in the chapters on Forest Offences and Eights and 

 Forest Insects, so as to render them more serviceable for 

 English readers. I have also, wherever practicable, exemplified 

 the subject-matter from Britain and India, so that the book 

 might be specially useful to British and Indian foresters. 



Mr. B. H. Baden Powell, CLE., Instructor in Forest Law at 

 the Eoyal Indian Engineering College, and late Judge of the 

 Chief Court of the Punjab, has very kindly revised Chapters HI. 

 and IV. of Part L, which deal with Forest Offences and Eights, 

 and has rewritten the pages on forest property and the general 

 account of forests rights, so as to make them concordant with 

 English law. My own knowledge of insects is too inadequate to 

 enable me to deal properly with Part II., Chapters IV. to VIII. , 

 which treat of Forest Insects ; I have therefore submitted my 

 translation of this portion of the Forstschutz to Mr. W. F. H. 

 Blandford, F.Z.S., lecturer on Entomology at the Eoyal Indian 

 Engineering College, and I here express my great obligation to 



