THE WORK OF THE FOREST DEPARTMENT IN INDIA. j 



years 1910-11 to 1914-15 is given in the following statement : 



Forest produce removed from State forests, average per annum for the 

 period 1910-1911 to 1914-1915. 



Much information regarding Indian timbers will be found 

 in Gamble's Manual of Indian Timbers (1902) and in Troup's 

 Indian Woods and their Uses (Indian Forest Records, Economic 

 Products Series, Volume I, Part I, 1909), while information on 

 the more important timbers and minor forest products will be 

 found in Troup's Indian Forest Utilization (2nd Ed., 1913) and 

 Pearson's Commercial Guide to the Forest Economic Products 

 of India (1912). The following is a necessarily brief account 

 of some of the more important major and minor forest products 

 of India : 



(1) MAJOR PRODUCE : PRINCIPAL TIMBER TREES. 



A large proportion of the many species of Indian trees have 

 little or no value at present, partly because they are imperfectly 

 known, partly because they are so rare as to be of no consequence 

 economically and partly because they are wanting in durability, 

 strength or other necessary properties. Still there are several 

 hundred species of Indian trees the timber of which is used for 

 some purpose or other. A few of the most important of these 



